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Australian judge calls for legalization

A FORMER Supreme Court justice has called for illicit drugs to be legalised.

Retired ACT judge Kenneth Crispin says the banning of party drugs has been an even bigger failure than the US prohibition on alcohol during the 1920s and early '30s.

The three-decade war on drugs had produced gangsters like Al Capone on a much greater scale, he argued.

"Drug usage has exploded during the period of the war on drugs," he told ABC Television.

"All around the world, the most vigorously enforced drug laws tend to have the highest rates of usage."

Street prices of drugs had also fallen during the crackdown on drugs, with cocaine costing a sixth of what it did compared with the start of the drug war.

Mr Crispin said he came to his conclusion on the need to decriminalise drugs "incredibly reluctantly".

Posted By jamesk at 2010-05-27 19:33:15 permalink | comments
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slay : 2010-05-28 18:08:40
i'll admit, they had me going all the way to the end..i truly thought Crispin was one of the ones who hadn't lost all functioning senses (both common and physical). when i saw the quote "incredibly reluctantly," my heart sank. when will these fucking cunts stop adhering to the crippling stigmas and stereotypes that we've attached to drugs like weed, mushrooms, or mephedrone? the harm occurs solely when [AND ONLY WHEN] the civil side effects are more detrimental than the psychological ones. until prohibition ends and worldwide sociopolitical intervention begins, there will be no regulation of black market drugs/use, no safe or sanitary place for addicts to acquire syringes, and an exponentially increasing amount of overdoses, violence and the relentless incarceration of non-violent, white collar, otherwise law-abiding citizens from ogden, utah to manila, phillippines. stop following the herd, and realize your world can not continue down the path its going.

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