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Renewing a lawyerly pitch for ending drug prohibition

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to this postat TalkLeft, I see that the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Drugs and the Law has issued this interesting five-page document titled "A Wiser Course: Ending Drug Prohibition, Fifteen Years Later."  Here are snippets from the start of the report: In 1994, the New York City Bar Association?s Committee on Drugs and the Law concluded that the societal costs of drug prohibition are too high to justify it as a policy and called for a national dialogue on alternatives.  Fifteen years later, that dialogue has not occurred, we are no closer to a drug-free society, and the problems associated with the illegal drug trade are worse than ever.... On June 10, 1994, the Committee on Drugs and the Law (the ?Committee?) of the New York City Bar Association released a report (the ?Report?) entitled ?A Wiser Course: Ending Drug Prohibition...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).