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boatman Milton Friedman: goodbye to a pioneer

is dead Milton Friedman, Nobel economist and defender of personal liberty against to state interference. The West likes to boast of his tolerance and respect for freedoms, but the legal status of drugs or prostitution is more typical of an Oriental satrap or totalitarian regimes that routinely derided the alleged democracies in which we live. At this point we can not look over your shoulder to North Korea or Cuba, why we behave just like them.

Like his friend Thomas Szasz, Friedman was right from the beginning of the War on Drugs, in the early seventies, one of his most lucid and fervent critics. Unlike the UN, which predicted eight years ago a drug free world by 2008 , Friedman was right to warn that full at each step in the direction repressive prohibitionist and bring us closer to the abyss. One example is the letter sent in 1990 to then-drug czar, William Bennett

"You are not mistaken in believing that drugs are a curse which is devastating our society. It is not wrong in believing that drugs are destroying the social fabric, ruining the lives of many young people and imposing a heavy cost to the poorest of our society. Not wrong to believe that the majority of the public share your concerns. In short, you're not wrong about the purposes it seeks to achieve.

Su error consiste en no reconocer que son precisamente las medidas que usted favorece la principal causa de los pecados que deplora. Por supuesto que la demanda es el problema, pero no sólo la demanda, sino la demanda que opera a través de la represión y de canales ilegales. La ilegalidad da lugar a obscenas utilidades que financian tácticas homicidas de los capos de la droga; la ilegalidad conduce a la corrupción de funcionarios encargados de aplicar la ley; la ilegalidad monopoliza los esfuerzos de los funcionarios honestos de manera que no cuentan con recursos para combatir delitos más evidentes como los atracos, los hurtos y los asaltos.

Las drogas son una tragedia para los adictos, pero criminalizar su uso o consumo convierte esa estrategia en un desastre para la sociedad, para los usuarios y los no usuarios. Nuestra experiencia con la prohibición de las drogas no es sino una réplica de nuestra experiencia con la prohibición del alcohol.(...) La descriminalización de las drogas es hoy todavía más urgente que en 1972, pero debemos reconocer que el daño causado en el entretanto no puede ser borrado, por lo menos no inmediatamente. Posponer la descriminalización sólo empeorará el problema y lo hará menos tratable.»

Más de quince años perdidos, miles de muertos y encarcelados, los cárteles locales se han convertido en imperios transnacionales que controlan la política, the economy, justice and the army of some states How quickly the world governments to reason? Impossible to know.

Open Letter from Milton Friedman to William Bennet , Office of National Drug Control United States. Foreword

Friedman for "After Prohibition: An adult approach to drug policy in the XXI century"

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antiprohibitionism Celebrities and drugs: between hysteria and hypocrisy

Just pass a day that appear in any news media that relates to a famous with drug. The name of Kate Moss, whose case is discussed in the previous post , could add hundreds more, both national (Carmina Ordóñez, El Marismeño, Poli Díaz, María Jiménez ...) and foreign ( Whitney Houston, Pete Doherty , Oliver Stone, Woody Harrelson , Maradona, Nick Nolte or excellent actor Robert Downey Jr., a regular in the gossip pages of events and for this reason).

The latest celebrity to leave the arena on account of his drug and alcohol consumption was George Michael, but, unlike del modelo al uso, que exige grandes muestras de contrición, propósito de enmienda y el ingreso urgente en una clínica de desintoxicación para volver al buen camino, el británico se ha atrevido a decir que le gusta la marihuana, blasfemia que ha suscitado la airada repulsa de los cantamañanas de siempre . Y no es que Michael sea un apologista a ultranza del consumo indiscriminado de drogas:

«Es la única droga que siempre he creído que merece la pena tomar, pero tienes que esperar. Nunca se me ocurrió tomarla hasta que tenía 22 o 23 años. Tienes que haber alcanzado ya tu correcta posición en la vida», aseguró, tras lamentar haber estado enganchado a otro tipo de drogas in the past.

"I would say it's a great drug, but obviously not too healthy. You can not afford smoke it if you have something to do "

is clear that the smallest positive reference from a public to the delights that will undoubtedly produce drugs is a crimental to be punished with the greatest of insults . Thankfully there are no longer the stake and the stake as in the Middle Ages, more than one and more than two end up in them if some fans depended.

But, however much it annoys them to modern inquisitors, list of famous drug users and not necessarily sorry is huge and covers many more areas that show biz . Scientists like Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould and Nobel laureates in science as Kary Mullis, Richard Feynman and Francis Crick, among those who left the cabinet, acknowledged at the time thereof do not problematic cannabis and other substances, and it is not unreasonable to assume that expand the list if it weighed quite a serious stigma attached to drug use. It would be so stupid to attribute the successes of these and other celebrities to their use of illegal substances such as continuously insist that everyone who uses them is doomed to failure. Sometimes, the winners also drug users, no matter who he gets upset.

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Manuel Artigas A photographer named Kate Moss was able to fool a few months ago, and abusing their trust and violating their right to privacy, we took pictures and videos using cocaine. Judas then sold the material to newspapers and TV stations without any judge will tuck a cigar. Rather, it was Moss which had to appear in court to answer to no one knows what crime. We were very few highlight that this was reprehensible , Not to make the model into their privacy.

Now, after the discovery that third of Italian parliamentarians had recently consumed cocaine and hashish, some have invoked the right to privacy of politicians who, in an exercise of supreme hypocrisy, they voted a law that does nothing considerably hardened drug sentences, even for mere consumption. O all have the right to privacy or do not have one, and the politicians who pass laws that are not willing to comply, even less. To submit to unannounced checks, as they are forced to make thousands of citizens, or they start to legislate otherwise, if not teasing impression that already has a policy becomes unbearable in this case.

Indeed, this story reminded me of an earlier scandal , also in Italy, where he was involved the whole Christ, to a former prime minister and senator who used cocaine "for therapeutic reasons." I guess the event, whose impact was minimal outside Italy, has already been buried and forgotten:

"A great drug and sex scandal reminiscent of Rome's La Dolce Vita Fellinian exploded yesterday with 19 arrests and 35 searches for cocaine trafficking and incitement to prostitution in the so-called "Operation Cleopatra."

A long line of characters 'above suspicion' are accused of or involved, including former prime minister, former foreign minister, former finance minister, former European Parliament president and current senator for life Emilio Colombo, 83 , Undersecretary for Productive Activities of the current center-right government Giuseppe Galati, the provincial council of the ruling National Alliance party Bruno Petrella, some other political and showbiz celebrities, including actress Serena Grandi and Ludmilla model Derkach Ukrainian origin. "

More than La Dolce Vita, these stories remind us Orwell's farm, where all animals are equal but some were more equal than others.

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parliamentarians and U.S. models and fentanyl: 500 dead and rising surge

For a change, the epidemic of deaths by heroin adulterated with fentanyl that takes place in the U.S. since late 2005, is going quite unnoticed in the national media. And no laughing matter. It is estimated that around 500 people have died in northern Iraq because of this, especially in Chicago, for less than a year. Nora Volkow, director of NIDA's compassionate, it is clear who are the culprits: the addicts themselves.

"" Many addicts are unaware of the composition of what they buy on the street. However, others deliberately seek this mixture to undergo a greater sense of pleasure when 'put', "says Volkow NIDA's web." "Tango and Cash

: an analgesic murderer

Everyone knows that the desire for pleasure drug addicts will stop at nothing. The funny thing is that, across the Atlantic in a small country surrounded by mountains called Switzerland, the implementation of other drug policy is producing diametrically opposite results among opiate injectors and no one has seen the fentanyl for those payments.

"The study shows in particular that both researchers in the canton of Zurich - where more than 20% of addicts-850 Swiss people had fallen into heroin dependence in 1990, and the number dropped to 150 in 2002.

Other countries, starting with those who bet on an enforcement policy, did not achieve a similar decline. England and Australia reported, including an increase during the same period. In Italy, there were strong fluctuations from one year to another. But Zurich researchers consider data from Italy are incomplete.

"In Switzerland, the action of granting a medical nature of heroin use has certainly helped change the image of users: from rebels were losers. In the eyes of young people are forced to turn patients to medical treatments, "says Carlos Nordt."

Heroin: the Swiss model creates school abroad

a novelty, that of treating heroin addicts as people instead of sending them to slaughter. No wonder it is the Swiss model, not the U.S., which is creating a school. In Spain, however, the socialist government takes cognizance and claims (against all evidence) that more testing is needed. Do not say the same thing in opposition but on the contrary:

"The head of the department came at the request PP, to give his opinion on the motion of the Senate demanded a trial on heroin in Euskadi. His speech began with a review of parliamentary initiatives on this issue since 1999, with emphasis on a proposal by the PSE in 2004 urged the PP Executive to approve the therapeutic use of heroin. "They change their opinion depending on who governs, we lack the courage to say yes or no, accused the Socialists."

Inclán advocates dispensing heroin and said that the ministry "tide partridge"

Maybe four overdose deaths that have occurred in Bilbao last month August help our political leaders to pluck the daisy. The clock is ticking and people die, Mrs. Salgado.