Dr John Watson wrote:
> The World Health Organization Do***ents Failure of U.S. Drug Policies
> Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
>
> By Bruce Mirken | The United States has some of the world’s most
> punitive drug policies and has led the cheering section for tough “war
> on drugs” policies worldwide, but a new international study suggests
> that those policies have been a cra****ng failure. A World Health
> Organization survey of 17 countries, conducted by some of the world’s
> leading substance abuse researchers, found that we have the highest
rates
> of marijuana and cocaine use.
>
> The numbers are startling. In the United States, 42.4 percent admitted
> having used marijuana. The only other nation that came close was New
> Zealand, another bastion of get-tough policies, at 41.9 percent. No one
> else was even close. The results for cocaine use were similar, with the
> United States leading the world by a large margin.
>
> This study is im****tant because it’s the first time a respected
> international group has surveyed drug use around the world, using the
same
> questions and procedure everywhere. While many countries have their own
> drug use surveys, the questions and methodology vary, and comparisons
> between countries are difficult. This new study eliminates that problem.
>
> Some of the most striking numbers are from the Netherlands, where adults
> are permitted to possess a small of marijuana and purchase it from
> regulated businesses. Some U.S. officials have claimed that these Dutch
> policies have created some sort of decadent cesspool of drug abuse, but
> the new study demolishes such assertions: In the Netherlands, only 19.8
> percent have used marijuana, less than half the U.S. figure.
>
> Even more striking is what the researchers found when they asked young
> adults when they had started using marijuana. Again, the United States
led
> the world, with 20.2 percent trying marijuana by age 15. No other
country
> was even close, and in the Netherlands, just 7 percent used marijuana by
> 15 — roughly one-third of the U.S. figure.
>
>
Government is the cause of anarchy. Snipped rest of article.
> For this we arrest 830,000 Americans a year on marijuana charges?
>
No we arrest them to provide jobs for prison guards and DEA
agents, funding
for local Vice cops and public service announcement producers. So that
the price
of drugs will stay up and that dissenters from the received wisdom can
be punished
to teach them of their lesser place in society. So that those bold
enough to continue
in the drug trade as with the bootleggers of the Noble Experiment can
grow wealthy
enough to go into politics and become Presidential timber.
> See More:Drugs USA News
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