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...third of all 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...
...most shocking deficiencies in the fight against drugs is that addicts who want to kick their habits often must wait months before being admitted to a rehabilitation center, if they can find one at all. Legalization, say advocates, might at last give governments the revenue to fund rehabilitation and treatment adequately...
...additional $8.5 million came from the Department of Defense, a nearly 50 percent increase in funding since last year. Over $7 million of this went to fund research in the Division of Applied Sciences, the FAS, and the Kennedy School of Government...
...cultivating good relations with the U.S., China may have to stop playing the panda card. Last week the World Wildlife Fund and the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums filed suit in federal court in Washington to halt the shipment of two giant pandas from Shanghai to the Toledo Zoo. Experts contend that the endangered species' population has fallen below 1,000 and that the 100 pandas in captivity reproduce at a lower rate than those in the wild...
...January, he has scoured the countryside for their dens, catching them while they're "cold" -- hibernating, slow moving. Now he and the other hunters will sell them for $3 per lb. at Sweetwater's 30th Annual Rattlesnake Roundup. The town's Jaycees, who organize the roundup as a community fund raiser, claim that of some 40 in the country, theirs is the largest and oldest, drawing crowds of 8,000 a day. They expect to clear about $40,000 from the take at the door and the sale of skins, meat and venom...