Blueprint For Decriminalization
February, 1989
Panicky headlines and national hysteria have, for nearly eight decades, colored Americans' feelings about drug use. We've been told often enough that legalization means license, that legalization means approval, that legalization means crime and chaos.Legalization, if handled properly, means none of those things. It means that the black market would shrink; it means that we could isolate the criminal by-products of drug abuse from the public-health issues; it means that we would have more resour...
