Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00185)

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The Politics Of Prescribed Prohibition (Nov. 10 - An excellent op-ed
in The Canberra Times, in Australia, notes the scientific and
scholarly evidence we have about drugs and drug use are routinely
overlooked in favour of policies based on ideas that are the
intellectual and academic equivalent of a belief in witchcraft. The
overwhelming bulk of scientific and scholarly evidence suggests that
prohibition has greatly exacerbated the problems associated with
drugs, drug use and drug users. Even so there are still those who try
to argue that reliance on prohibition has prevented an explosion in
availability and usage, and that any change in policy would send out
the wrong message. There is no evidence to support this. Indeed, what
evidence there is suggests the exact opposite.)
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