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no less adds Thomas's scot
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* * Said David Margolis, who had supervised the Criminal Division's anti- * narcotics efforts in the early 1990s: "Anyone who thinks that drug * enforcement is primarily a law enforcement issue, they're smoking wacky * tabacky." Tell all the damn manipulative politicians. Jail's not even cost effective. * RAND Study Finds Mandatory Minimums Cost-Ineffective * ---------------------------------------------------- * * Excerpt from RAND Press Release: * * Washington, DC, May 12, 1997 -- If cutting drug consumption and * drug-related crime are the nation's prime drug control * objectives, then the mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws * in force at the federal level and in most states are not the * way to get there. * * This is the key finding of "Mandatory Minimum Drug * Sentences: Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayer's Money?", * a new RAND study that provides the first quantitative * analysis of how successful these measures are in achieving * what Director Barry McCaffrey of the Office of National Drug * Control Policy has called "our central purpose and mission - * - reducing illicit drug use and its consequences." In Florida, they charged a mother with delivering cocaine to her baby. A problem with this is the mother-addict repeatedly applied for rehab programs, but there were no available slots. Not enough funding. Law enforcement drug hysteria. Decades of Drug War. Those rumor-level stories about our government encouraging drugs to reach the inner ci |
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