Decriminalize Drugs Now
January, 1989
Sometimes reason speaks through a chorus of voices. Kurt L. Schmoke, the mayor of Baltimore, told the United States Conference of Mayors that it was time to start rethinking our drug policy. In a column in The Washington Post, he repeated the question: "Has the time come to add America's 'war on drugs' to the long list of history's follies?"Just as Prohibition banned something millions of people wanted, our current drug laws make it illegal to possess a commodity that is in very high d...
