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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: New Reason to overhaul drug laws
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Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 18:54:22 EST
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A few years ago, there was a major Royal Commission on drugs, called
the LeDain Commission.  They concluded that there should be no laws
against possession of any drug whatever, but that certain drugs should
carry penalties for sale.

Where a drug is physiologically more dangerous than some threshold,
this seems like a sensible approach.  It is clear that laws against
possession have only two main effects: to finance the Mafia, and to
create delons of otherwise law-abiding citizens.  Neither of these
effects are good.  A third possible effect is to increase to use of
harmful drugs, but I think there might be some argument about that one.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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