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Even among those charged with executing the antidrug measures, however, the string of government seizures can seem excessive and unfair, especially when they involve owners who may have had no idea that drugs were on board. "Say my kids go out and one of their friends leaves a roach in the ashtray," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that...
Campaigning in New Jersey, Dukakis sought to capitalize on this advantage: he walked with a hand-held microphone among 500 students at the Pine Brook Junior High School in Manalapan to preach an antidrug sermon. At a later press conference, he once again criticized the Reagan Administration for cutting funds for antidrug programs...
...commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., on the Moscow summit. Instead he talked almost entirely about drugs. The President attempted to drain some political emotion from the subject by calling for a bipartisan commission to study what could be done (ignoring the fact that antidrug programs already enjoy wide bipartisan support in Congress). Bush, meanwhile, toured a crack den in Los Angeles that had been closed by police raids and tried to sound tougher on drugs than anybody else -- including his chief...
...federal prisoners). Legalization not only would save these enormous expenditures but also could bring in billions more in new revenues if governments chose to tax the sale of newly legal drugs (as they surely would). Nadelmann and others suggest that the money be used to fund an antidrug program that might actually work: a long, persistent ^ educational effort of the sort that has reduced cigarette smoking, plus expanded treatment programs for drug abusers...
...even though corner drug shops are not going to pop up anytime soon, nor should they, the hot new debate over legalization is a significant one. It reflects the widespread and understandable dismay over antidrug efforts that have gone to such discomforting lengths as to call in the military without noticeably making a dent in the crime and abuse problems. And it could turn attention to the need for more effective treatment and education efforts, rather than merely more election-year frenzy and posturing...