Drug Control (was RE: Australia and Gun control...)

[Bjorn, Pret]

Wow.  There's a tangent for you.  The Trauma-List's gonna need a new
transmission.

But that aside, I agree with you entirely.  

Surprise.

Pret

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:05 AM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Re: Australia and Gun control...
...
ok...then take the main reason for acute prison overcrowding out and
lower  the financial incentive for criminal activity by rationalizing
drug laws and abandoning the silly 'just say no' policy by removing most
drug prohibitions and targeting major pushers instead of 'small fish'
and  users...provide for safe needle exchange and otherwise treat drug
abuse as the  public and mental health problem that it is, and use the
taxes generated to help  fund the needed treatment. As a side effect,
this will allow us to redirect many  of the federal and state workers
currently engaged in the useless 'War on [Some] Drugs' into more
productive areas...
 
Use the prison space thus freed up to put the hard core of gang members
responsible for many of the "black on black" and "brown on brown'
firearms deaths in the US behind bars for prolonged periods of time,
which  will have the effect of reducing US firearms deaths by an order
of magnitude  more or less and reducing the costs of urban trauma
systems by a similar  amount.

All by reducing the number of laws on the books and enforcing the rest
of them effectively.
 ck
Charles S. Krin, DO FAAFP