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Blair Peterson

The case for decriminalizing heroin, cocaine, and all other drugs - Vox - 0 views

  • At the same time, the war on drugs has fallen short of its key economic goal: to make drugs more expensive, and therefore make them less accessible to drug users.
  • Michael Botticelli, acting director of ONDCP, wrote, "This Strategy … rejects the notion that we can arrest and incarcerate our way out of the nation's drug problem."
  • The idea is to cut down the supply, so drugs are more expensive and, therefore, less affordable and accessible for a drug user.
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  • Campos, who's analyzed the historical numbers in his research, says drug abuse has never strongly correlated with drug policy.
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