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A Quagmire for Our Time.(laws and management of illegal drugs)
American Prospect, The, August, 2001 by SCHRAG, PETER
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The war on drugs has come to look distressingly like the war in Vietnam. Can a spreading "sagebrush rebellion of the left" de-escalate it?
AT LEAST SINCE 1996, WHEN VOTERS IN CALIFORNIA and Arizona approved ballot initiatives legalizing the medical use of marijuana, Americans have been trying to send the same message to Washington, D.C.: The nation's escalating, $20-billion drug war is a disastrous and costly failure that is stuffing the prisons, ruining thousands of lives both here and abroad, and producing few perceptible gains--except maybe in the careers of ...
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