Criminal
Aug. 30, 2000
To Solve the Drug Problem, Attack Demand, Not Supply
By Sylvester Salcedo and Jerry Epstein. The latest bull to be released in the china shop is Plan Colombia, more than a billion dollars to be spent to embroil us in a civil war and to destroy peasants, crops and rain forests alike. The justification revolves around illegal drugs, in this case, the claim that we can "save our children," and somehow reduce the flow of illegal drugs, by pushing growth into some other country, following a well-established pattern of failure as old as Prohibition.
By Sylvester Salcedo and Jerry Epstein
The latest bull to be released in the china shop is Plan Colombia, more than a billion dollars to be spent to embroil us in a civil war and to destroy peasants, crops and rain forests alike. The justification revolves around illegal drugs, in this case, the claim that we can ...
The latest bull to be released in the china shop is Plan Colombia, more than a billion dollars to be spent to embroil us in a civil war and to destroy peasants, crops and rain forests alike. The justification revolves around illegal drugs, in this case, the claim that we can ...
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