CYLLON
12-03-2004, 08:29 PM
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041130-045332-5543r.htm
Washington, DC, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- After 25 years and $25 billion the United States is further from winning the war on drugs, a study released Tuesday indicates.
The report conducted by the Washington Office on Latin America, a non-governmental organization that has the stated goal of trying to "reorient U.S. drug control policy to the region," concludes that U.S. policy geared toward "reducing drug abuse and availability in the United States" from a "supply-reduction model does not work."
WELL THERE IS A NEWS FLASH. DUH!!!PROhabition was tried once before remember.
Citing falling wholesale and retail cocaine and heroin prices and collateral damage suffered in Latin American countries as a result of U.S. anti-drug policy, Joy Olson, executive director of WOLA, said, "We've been tough on drugs, now it's time to get smart on drugs."
Walsh and a senior adviser at the ONDCP confirmed the initial report had been submitted to the office in spring 2004 but has not yet been released.
Not released.....GEE.....I wonder why. :rolleyes:
Over the last 25 years U.S. policy has tried to attack the war on drugs from a supply-side perspective. Through the eradication of coca crops in producing countries, interdicting drug shipments to the United States and jailing drug offenders, authorities were hoping to significantly drive up the cost of cocaine and heroin -- thus reducing cocaine's economic appeal to potential users.
However, the attempted siphoning of the supply side has lowered street prices and increased the number of incarcerated drug offenders, driving up government spending, without significantly reducing the amount of drug flow, the study's findings show.
Data compiled by WOLA show that since 1981 the retail price for 2 grams of cocaine went from $544.59 to $106.54 in 2003. Retail heroin prices mirrored the decline in cocaine prices, falling from $1,974.49 to $361.95 during the period.
Walsh noted that "price estimates are manifestations of supply and demand" and thus are the most accurate indicators to "determine what is coming in."
DID YA HEAR THAT LAST PART OH CONSERVATIVE DRUG FIGHTERS. Its right from the playbook of Rush, Bush, reagon and the republican side yet they scream and refuse to beleive it when its thier IDEAOLOGY thats proven wrong.
Washington, DC, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- After 25 years and $25 billion the United States is further from winning the war on drugs, a study released Tuesday indicates.
The report conducted by the Washington Office on Latin America, a non-governmental organization that has the stated goal of trying to "reorient U.S. drug control policy to the region," concludes that U.S. policy geared toward "reducing drug abuse and availability in the United States" from a "supply-reduction model does not work."
WELL THERE IS A NEWS FLASH. DUH!!!PROhabition was tried once before remember.
Citing falling wholesale and retail cocaine and heroin prices and collateral damage suffered in Latin American countries as a result of U.S. anti-drug policy, Joy Olson, executive director of WOLA, said, "We've been tough on drugs, now it's time to get smart on drugs."
Walsh and a senior adviser at the ONDCP confirmed the initial report had been submitted to the office in spring 2004 but has not yet been released.
Not released.....GEE.....I wonder why. :rolleyes:
Over the last 25 years U.S. policy has tried to attack the war on drugs from a supply-side perspective. Through the eradication of coca crops in producing countries, interdicting drug shipments to the United States and jailing drug offenders, authorities were hoping to significantly drive up the cost of cocaine and heroin -- thus reducing cocaine's economic appeal to potential users.
However, the attempted siphoning of the supply side has lowered street prices and increased the number of incarcerated drug offenders, driving up government spending, without significantly reducing the amount of drug flow, the study's findings show.
Data compiled by WOLA show that since 1981 the retail price for 2 grams of cocaine went from $544.59 to $106.54 in 2003. Retail heroin prices mirrored the decline in cocaine prices, falling from $1,974.49 to $361.95 during the period.
Walsh noted that "price estimates are manifestations of supply and demand" and thus are the most accurate indicators to "determine what is coming in."
DID YA HEAR THAT LAST PART OH CONSERVATIVE DRUG FIGHTERS. Its right from the playbook of Rush, Bush, reagon and the republican side yet they scream and refuse to beleive it when its thier IDEAOLOGY thats proven wrong.