Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Decriminalization

This ought to keep tourism rock'n.

Argentine president calls for decriminalization of drug use - CNN.com
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner repeated her call this week to decriminalize personal drug use and crack down on traffickers and dealers.


"I don't like it when people easily condemn someone who has an addiction as if he were a criminal, as if he were a person who should be persecuted," she told a meeting of the National Investigation into the Consumption of Alcohol, Tobacco, Psychopharmaceuticals and Illegal Drugs.

"Those who should be persecuted are those who sell the substances, those who give it away, those who traffic in it."


Funny how a government that is so wrong with regard to its economic policy seems to get its drug policy right.


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