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...that provided for harsh handling of both pushers and addicts. A life sentence is meted out for selling butsu (the Japanese gangsters' untranslatable coinage for heroin). Mere possession can mean several years in jail. To cut off the demand, the government required that every user caught be confined for at least 30 days of treatment. The most Draconian fact-by American standards-is that each addict's treatment begins with "cold turkey," or withdrawal unassisted by chemical crutches such as methadone...
...increase in future demand, which must somehow be slowed. Some utilities are already shifting their advertising campaigns from consumption to conservation of electricity. The rate-setting state power commissions might stop favoring large consumers, who claim the traditional discounts for bulk buying. (In Virginia, for example, the average industrial user pays 10 per kw-h for buying in bulk; the residential user pays 20, and the very small user, i.e., the poor, pays 30.) If the price of power must equal its costs, including the costs of environmental cleanup, then it seems reasonable that everyone pay equally...
Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of History of Science, said that science has outlived its usefulness to society because of its history of separating knowledge and technique from the actual user...
...report maintained that the overwhelming majority of marijuana users do not turn to hard drugs. It also found little link between marijuana and crime or violence, and even suggested that less regulation of marijuana might curtail the use of heroin by taking "the young marijuana user out of a criminal drug-using culture...
Grinspoon questioned the effectiveness of such measures. "The Commission, in protecting the user and going after the seller, apparently assumes that these are two non-overlapping groups of people: they are not; almost all sellers use, and many users sell," he said...