Norm Stamper, former police chief of Seattle, who after his retirement has become an advocate of decriminalizing drugs. Chief Stamper writes, Think of this war’s real casualties: tens of thousands of otherwise innocent Americans incarcerated, many for 20 years, some for life; families ripped apart; drug traffickers and blameless bystanders shot dead on city streets.… The United States has, through its war on drugs, fostered political instability, official corruption, and health and environmental disasters around the globe.3 In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on
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