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Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann
on the Future of Legalization
April 15, 2011 - Reason.tv
"We are making remarkable momentum with respect to changing the
marijuana laws," says Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director
of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the war on
drugs.
Reason.tv caught up with Nadelmann at the Drug Policy Alliance's
re:FORM Art Auction in Los Angeles, where he pointed out that the only
way to move forward on marijuana legalization is for states to start
taking risks by abandoning prohibition laws and setting up the conflict
with the feds.
"That's how alcohol prohibition ended, that's how marijuana prohibition
and ultimately drug prohibition are going to end."
Topics include: Grading President Obama on drug policy; the new
congress's stanch on the drug war; legalization in Portugal and the
future of legalization.
Interview by Ted Balaker; Shot by
Hawk Jensen and Alex Manning; Edited by Paul Detrick and Jensen.
what an amazing figure head for the non-profit, obviously knows what he is talking about and speaks very clearly and confidently, definitely hesitates less and sounds more logical then the Moms and Priest preaching for prohibition
of course nadelmann conveniently ignores the elephant () in the room ..the prison companies control all the campaign funding..and their shills control congress...
that means that the prison companies will lobby for more laws to push more ppl into their "market"..primarily by accelerating the war on marijuana...this will in turn generate more profits..a portion of which will go right back into lobbying...
if that sounds like a vicious circle..its not ..its a downward spiral...once established.. such a runaway growth cycle simply cannot even be slowed down..let alone stopped or reversed...so nadelmann is basically wasting his breath trying to fight a law of nature...
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Quote: Annapurna1 said: of course nadelmann conveniently ignores the elephant () in the room ..the prison companies control all the campaign funding..and their shills control congress...
that means that the prison companies will lobby for more laws to push more ppl into their "market"..primarily by accelerating the war on marijuana...this will in turn generate more profits..a portion of which will go right back into lobbying...
if that sounds like a vicious circle..its not ..its a downward spiral...once established.. such a runaway growth cycle simply cannot even be slowed down..let alone stopped or reversed...so nadelmann is basically wasting his breath trying to fight a law of nature...
ignores? wtf he talked about both the prison-industrial and drug war complex..
Here's a quick one for those here who have some political leanings, reason tv is a libertarian news organization, that being said, what is the libertarian viewpoint on privatizing the criminal justice system, as has been seen with our prisons. The private prison system is mentioned in this video as being a proponent for prohibition, and as far as I'm aware the libertarians are all in favor of government privatization.
Quote: Annapurna1 said: of course nadelmann conveniently ignores the elephant () in the room ..the prison companies control all the campaign funding..and their shills control congress...
that means that the prison companies will lobby for more laws to push more ppl into their "market"..primarily by accelerating the war on marijuana...this will in turn generate more profits..a portion of which will go right back into lobbying...
if that sounds like a vicious circle..its not ..its a downward spiral...once established.. such a runaway growth cycle simply cannot even be slowed down..let alone stopped or reversed...so nadelmann is basically wasting his breath trying to fight a law of nature...
ignores? wtf he talked about both the prison-industrial and drug war complex..
OK.. so apparently i was wrong and nadelmann has finally caught a glimpse of the elephant...but nadelmann still had to acknowledge the problem of house repugs (so he did see an elephant).. who are heavily favoured to win more house seats and the senate in 2012 (the POTUS remains up for grabs at this point)...
with all the political trends accelerating in the wrong direction.. the drug war will continue to escalate as i discussed in my earlier post...nadelmann might have seen the elephant..but it will run over him nonetheless...
Quote: of course nadelmann conveniently ignores the elephant () in the room ..the prison companies control all the campaign funding..and their shills control congress...
which is why it's up to the states just like it was during alcohol prohibition.
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Quote: batman returns said: Here's a quick one for those here who have some political leanings, reason tv is a libertarian news organization, that being said, what is the libertarian viewpoint on privatizing the criminal justice system, as has been seen with our prisons. The private prison system is mentioned in this video as being a proponent for prohibition, and as far as I'm aware the libertarians are all in favor of government privatization.
libritarians might want prisons to be privatised so that the government isnt paying it, but they flat out support the personal soverignty o choose what you want to put in your own body
Agreed. I love when the logically oriented team can find an oratorically gifted, kempt proponent with the means to gain some form of publicity for disseminating sanity. Now only if the majority weren't subjected to an acceptable form of insanity. . .
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Quote: batman returns said: Here's a quick one for those here who have some political leanings, reason tv is a libertarian news organization, that being said, what is the libertarian viewpoint on privatizing the criminal justice system, as has been seen with our prisons. The private prison system is mentioned in this video as being a proponent for prohibition, and as far as I'm aware the libertarians are all in favor of government privatization.
Yeah, Libertarians are the only "major" political party to outright support drug legalization. I have major respect for their stance on that. If we truly embodied Libertarian principles and drastically reduced the size of government and drastically increased personal freedoms, privatized prisons might actually be a good thing instead of a bad thing.
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