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Proibizione senza fine dell'America

Venerdì 8 agosto 2008

La proibizione dell'alcool de WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America ha durato 13 anni, ha riempito le prigioni del paese, il contempt ispirato per la legge fra milioni, la corruzione allevata ed Al prodotto Capone. Che cosa non ha fatto era di mantenere gli Americani dal bere.

 

La proibizione della marijuana dell'America ha disegnato nel relativo settantaduesimo anno questo mese. Ha generato un'industria sotterranea enorme che approvvigiona agli utenti, aiutati gli Stati Uniti aerostato della popolazione della prigione nel mondo più grande e deviato le risorse di applicazione di legge americana. Che cosa non ha fatto è Americani di conservazione dal usando la marijuana.

 

Al contrario. Dal 1937, la marijuana di anno è stata proscritta, il relativo uso negli Stati Uniti è andato in su da 4.000 per cento, secondo il progetto di politica della marijuana, da un gruppo Washington-based dell'ingresso che sostiene regolare la droga simile ad alcool. Uno studio recente dell'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità su uso della marijuana in 17 paesi ha disposto gli Americani alla parte superiore della lista.

 

La proibizione 1920-1933 sulla vendita, sulla produzione e sul trasporto di alcool ora è vista come guasto misero di ingegneria sociale. La proibizione su marijuana sarà vista mai ad una luce simile?

 

Per la prima volta in una generazione, ci è una fattura prima che congresso che eliminerebbe le pene federali “per l'uso personale di marijuana dagli adulti responsabili.„ Ma neppure il membro del Congresso che ha introdotto la fattura, firma di franchigia di Barney della carbossimetilazione, vede i prospetti luminosi per il passaggio rapido.

 

Ultima volta gli Stati Uniti Il congresso occupato di legislazione che avrebbe decriminalized la marijuana aveva luogo in 1978, quando una fattura introdotta dal senatore Edward Kennedy è stata passata dal senato ma mai non è stata ottenuta ad un voto nella Camera.

 

La cassa per marijuana legalizzante, la droga più ampiamente usata dopo alcool ed il tabacco, resti su parecchie plance - essere più evidente che la proibizione non ha funzionato semplicemente malgrado gli sforzi straordinario laboriosi e costosi di governo. In 2006, l'anno scorso où calcola da di FBI sono disponibili, 830.000 Americani sono stati arrestati sulle spese della marijuana, la maggior parte di loro per il possesso piuttosto che trafficare. 

Che risolve ad un arresto della marijuana ogni 38 secondi. Uno studio l'anno scorso ha valutato il costo di questi arresti a $10.7 miliardo.

 

“Questo è uno spreco enorme di risorse di applicazione di legge che dovrebbero essere messe a fuoco sul crimine violento e serio,„ dice la st dell'Allen Pierre, who heads the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the marijuana smokers’ lobby in Washington.

 

NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN USE AND ABUSE

 

“With alcohol we acknowledge the distinction between use and abuse, and we focus our law enforcement on efforts to stop irresponsible use. We do not arrest or jail responsible drinkers. That should be our policy for marijuana as well.”

 

The Bush administration’s drug czar, John Walters, will have none of this. He talks about marijuana in terms reminiscent of the apocalyptic warnings issued by Harry Anslinger, the first head of the Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930s and a driving force behind the 1937 marijuana prohibition.

 

Anslinger deemed marijuana “an addictive drug which induces in its users insanity, criminality and death.” Walters often takes issue with “the perception that marijuana is about fun and freedom. It isn’t. It’s about dependency, disease and dysfunction.”

 

(For a vivid portrayal of the dysfunction Walters warns about, see a mock documentary produced for the White House Office of National Drug Policy. It is entitled Stoners in the Mist, a play on the 1988 film on mountain gorillas in the Congo. here)

 

Americans who have admitted smoking marijuana at one point or another but escaped dependency, disease and dysfunction include President George W. Bush, Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator John Kerry, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Vice President Al Gore and Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for next November’s presidential election.

 

Former President Bill Clinton falls into a special category. When he studied in England, away from the long reach of U.S. law, he experimented with marijuana “a time or two,” he once told a television interviewer. “I didn’t inhale and I didn’t try again.”

Hollywood, conscious of a mass audience that does inhale, has produced a slew of new “stoner” movies this year. The pot-smoking protagonists include an investment banker and a medical student (Harold & Kumar), a psychiatrist (The Wackness), and a process server (Pineapple Express).

 

But sympathetic portrayals of marijuana use in popular culture do not necessarily translate into faster progress towards legalization. Government anti-drug fighters are serious in their opposition.

 

When Barney Frank, at a news conference to explain the rationale for his bill, was asked what timeline he had in mind, he quipped: “Not soon … but eventually, you’ll see the development of a marijuana futures market.” David Murray, the chief scientist in the drug czar’s office who had listened to the briefing, was not amused. “It’s not funny,” he said, “not funny at all.”

 

But not impossible either, in the long run



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