[Vision2020] Now that's a bumper sticker

[lfalen]

Jennifer
No argument here. I do not support how the war on drugs is being waged.
Roger
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From: "Jennifer Ingalls" jennifer at inlandradio.com
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:17:34 -0800
To: "'lfalen'" lfalen at turbonet.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Now that's a bumper sticker

> Effective war on drugs? Perhaps you should read "Convictions" by former New
> York AUSA (now Oregon's AG) John Kroger. He's described our current drug
> strategies as squeezing a balloon: you displace the problem (the air in the
> balloon), but its still there. He very articulately describes in this book
> how interdiction has only shifted the problem--not solved it. We still have
> excessively high supply and demand for illicit drugs in the US. Jailing
> mules, dealers, and even major cartel kingpins has only given rise to new
> mules, dealers, and kingpins. Kroger suggests changing environmental factors
> through preventative education and drug-rehabilitation is the only way we
> can even make a real chink (let alone a dent) in the problem. 
> 
> It's a great book--Kroger was an AUSA (assistant U.S. attorney = federal
> prosecutor) on many big Mafia cases, drug cases, and worked on a lot of
> post-9/11 warrants, etc. 
> 
> Jennifer L. Ingalls
>