<s docid="LA050789-0008" num="175"> Such talk often leads to more discussion of the possibility of some kind of legalization of drugs to put an end to the incredibly lucrative black market, but the subject never gets very far.</s>

<s docid="LA050789-0008" num="176"> Proponents of legalization feel certain that it would reduce murders and other crime but have a harder time making a case that it would cut drug use.</s>

<s docid="LA050789-0008" num="184"> Legalizing drugs, he said, would "take the profit out of their enterprise".</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60059" num="101"> A convicted person discovers a culture in prison which may make him become something he was not when he first came in, namely, a criminal.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60059" num="124"> If results can be achieved in this way...</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60059" num="125"> I have only one reservation: Substitute products should not replace one form of dependence with another for any great length of time.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-57998" num="102"> A convicted person discovers a culture in prison which may make him become something he was not when he first came in, namely, a criminal.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-57998" num="125"> If results can be achieved in this way...I have only one reservation: Substitute products should not replace one form of dependence with another for any great length of time.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-21016" num="83"> According to a presentation by Teo Laus, a psychologist for drug addicts who is a member of the Dutch state health organization, given at the First Congress on Dependency in Macedonia, held in Skopje in November 1993, punishing drug users unfairly limits the freedom of adults to use substances (i.e.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-21016" num="84"> , marijuana) which are not more dangerous than those that can be purchased legally, such as tobacco and alcohol!</s>

<s docid="LA122290-0133" num="51"> Aggressive enforcement of anti-drug laws, they and others believe, have only prompted narcotics-related crimes and jammed court dockets, while inhibiting cocaine and heroin addicts who might otherwise seek rehabilitation.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-67149" num="66"> There is no point in the police arresting people who have drugs intended for personal use in their possession.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-67149" num="68"> What purpose is there in ensnaring an addict in the justice system and sending him to jail where he risks falling in with an even more criminal element, when our resources do not even permit us to investigate every single case''?</s>

<s docid="LA112089-0024" num="24"> To them, making drugs illegal merely fosters crime and violence while failing utterly to stop drug use, just as Prohibition of alcohol failed in the 1920s.</s>

<s docid="LA100189-0099" num="12"> Switzerland has the highest rate of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Europe, and Zurich, the country's biggest drug-center, had to find a radical way to stop drug users from spreading the disease.</s>

<s docid="LA031990-0019" num="20"> Cultures in which people drink moderately with their meals -- and where children, in the presence of their parents, learn the social rules of drinking -- have much lower rates of alcoholism than those in which drinking occurs in bars, in binges, or mostly alone.</s>

<s docid="LA031990-0019" num="58"> But the evidence suggests that there will be fewer human, economic and social costs to a policy of legalization-and-education than to continued escalation of an unwinnable war.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-45326" num="25"> In addition, I believe that a controlled dosage of opiates can only be tolerated in the case of medical treatment.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-45326" num="43"> We are tying down enormous police forces that we would otherwise use to combat dealers and drug criminals.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-67018" num="43"> It also includes a recognition of the fact that crime in Germany would immediately fall by 10 to 20 percent if these sick people were treated instead of being turned into criminals.</s>

<s docid="LA121589-0029" num="34"> In introducing his bill, Galiber argued that "by decriminalizing the sale, possession and use of controlled substances, we won't end the demand (for drugs), but we can take the huge profits out and remove the heinous criminal elements.</s>

