Drug Legalization Debate, 6/26/08, 4 Corners Program, Press TV -- aired across Europe and the Middle East

<?php global $user; ?><?php if ($user->uid) { $user = user_load(array('uid'=>$user->uid));} ?><?php print $_GET['pid']; ?> This election year the country is focused on change. We do the same thing every day in the area of drug policy reform. By shining a bright light on the TRUTH, we are proving our case: prohibition does far more harm than good.

David Borden, Executive Director, StoptheDrugWar.org, Washington, DC

Deirdre Boyd, CEO, Addiction Recovery Foundation, London

host: Shahab Mossavat

part 1 of 3: embed: part 2 of 3: embed: part 3 of 3: embed: Click here to view the full one-hour program on presstv.com. David Borden did not appear in the first half due to technical problems. PressTV is an English-language network based in Teheran, which airs across Europe and the Middle East. references for statements made by David Borden:

• Past-year prevalence of marijuana use among young people in the tolerant Netherlands about half as in nearby France: The State of the Drugs Problem in Europe, 2007 report EMCDDA (page 41)
• States with marijuana decriminalization have not seen resulting rises in use: various studies including Institute of Medicine, Monitoring the Future, Connecticut Law Review Commission, others
• Teen marijuana use declines in states with medical marijuana laws: Marijuana Use by Young People: The Impact of State Medical Marijuana Laws
• Substitution effect between marijuana use and alcohol use: Substitution of Marijuana for Alcohol: The Role of Perceived Access and Harm, Journal of Drug Education, 2006
• Average Age of Netherlands heroin addicts has been increasing (e.g. few young heroin addicts): Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction
• Opiates and cocaine were banned almost a century ago (1914) by the Harrison Narcotics Act: Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• Taliban earns $100 million in opium profits in 2007: Drug War Chronicle citing UN Office on Drugs and Crime Chief Antonio Costa on BBC
• Drug prohibition sends hundreds of billions of dollars per year in illicit revenues to the global underground: UN World Drug Report, via Drug War Chronicle
• The US homicide rate increased under alcohol prohibition and decreased following it's repeal: Schaffer Library alcohol prohibition section
• Street price of cocaine (adjusted for purity and inflation) drops by 80% since 1980: Rand Corporation, via Joint Economic Committee, US Senate

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