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...Ethan Nadelmann, who heads the Lindesmith Center and Drug Policy Foundation, which provides practical and theoretical alternatives to the traditional "drug war" paradigm, believes there are two recognizable trends growing in the public perception of drug addiction. "The first is: Hey, we can't incarcerate ourselves out of this problem. And once we've recognized that, we need to figure out a better approach. Propositions 200 and 36, in Arizona and California, distinguished themselves because they changed the laws to require treatment for addicts...
Nothing has caused so much bad blood as the money he has given to drug-law reform. In 1994 he began funding the Lindesmith Center. Its director, Ethan Nadelmann, campaigns for an end to the so-called war on drugs and advocates sweeping drug-policy reforms. Soros has committed at least $15 million to Lindesmith and other groups. Last fall he became a target of the zero-tolerance lobby after contributing $1 million to help pass state referendums in California and Arizona to legalize the medical use of such drugs as marijuana. Critics of the new marijuana laws argued they...
...Could you please put me in touch with Dr. Lindesmith of your article on pop drugs? You see, I've been in college a couple of years now, and I haven't yet developed an interest in marijuana. So I guess I've got a problem. I'd appreciate whatever you could do but, for Christ's sake, don't tell my old man! He's along in years, and that could spell...
...California Assemblyman Jesse Unruh and Actor Darren McGavin. One of Vice President Spiro Agnew's daughters was suspended from Washington's exclusive National Cathedral School for three days last spring after an investigation was held to determine if she had been smoking pot. University of Indiana Sociologist Alfred R. Lindesmith, who has spent nearly 35 years studying drug use, contends with a measure of grim humor: "If a kid goes to college these days and never develops an interest in marijuana, he's got a problem and you should worry. He may be a loner or not accepted...
...most Americans, writes Sociologist Alfred Lindesmith in Drug Addiction, the suggestion that the U.S. should switch to something like the British system comes as "a startling, radical or dangerous idea." Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger opposes it. But the A.B.A.-A.M.A. joint committee-while flatly against anything like "indiscriminate distribution" of narcotics-recommends trying something like the British system on a pilot-plant basis. This would be an "outpatient facility, on a controlled, experimental basis." For a site, the committee suggests the District of Columbia, "being an exclusively federal jurisdiction and immediately accessible to both law-enforcement and public health agencies...