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Lying In Sweden; Attacks Dutch Again
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July 14, 1998From the Associated Press
US DRUG CZAR PRAISES SWEDEN’S DRUGS POLICIES
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey on Monday praised Sweden’s
drug policies, saying they make far more sense than liberalized policies such as those in
the Netherlands.
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Analysis By
Dutch Center Shows
"Claims Regarding Effectiveness Of The Swedish Drug Policy Cannot Be Proven."
McCaffrey, who’s beginning a European fact-finding tour, sparked Dutch ire last
week by saying the country’s policy of letting its citizens use marijuana and other
soft drugs for therapeutic and recreational purposes was "an unmitigated
disaster."
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Associated Press
Reports On Dutch Ambassador’s Protests
On Drug Bizarro’s Remarks Prior To His Trip To Holland
The trip comes as the U.S. government launches a $1 billion, five-year ad
campaign aimed at steering young people away from trying drugs.
"We are sure that the most important inoculation for a society is to convince your
own young people to reject the abuse of drugs ... that includes alcohol and cigarettes.
And I think Sweden by the evidence that’s available has done a better job at that
than almost any society in Europe and certainly better than the United States,"
McCaffrey told a news conference.
Sweden, which discourages alcohol and tobacco use through high taxes, and which keeps a
tight watch on other drug use, has created a "national consensus" against drugs,
he said.
Statistics compiled from various sources by McCaffrey’s
Office of National Drug Control Policy show that about 3 percent of Swedish teen-agers
report having used cannabis, compared with 9.1 percent in the United States and 30.2
percent in the Netherlands.
(Ed. note: This is an explicit statement that the measure of
the success of a "drugs" policy is whether "teen-agers report having used
cannabis." This is very revealing, and absolutely absurd. Nonetheless, when
prohibitionists cite a drop in "illicit drug use" in DEAland from 1979 to 1992
as proof of a successful policy, and thereby ignore the crack cocaine epidemic in the
middle of this, that is also an implicit example of this criterion. In short, the War on
Drugs is a war on marijuana, and the suppression of marijuana, and especially medical
marijuana, is the highest priority of the US government. Why?)
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Legalize
Marijuana and Reduce Use?
New Survey Puts Estimate of Dutch Marijuana Use Even More Below DEAland
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Pays for Press Release For Coverage of New Dutch Marijuana Stats
McCaffrey, however, cautioned countries with low drug-use rates that they may
come under increasing pressure as U.S. drug use declines and sellers look for new markets.
"The United States is probably in the end phases of an epidemic; it’s
possible that Europe is in the beginning phases of an epidemic," he said.
Despite his criticism of Dutch drug policy, McCaffrey will travel
this week to the Netherlands "to learn from them and listen to their own viewpoint.
The Netherlands "does have a drug abuse problem in general that is enormous and
growing, not getting better ... Their prison population has doubled, their murder rate is
much higher than it used to be," he said.
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Comparison of drug
addiction levels in various European countries.
(Ed. note: Is he backtracking on the murder rate numbers? The US
has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world, so this is the worst
possible subject for him to raise. Stay tuned.)
Copyright 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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