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.fn1 In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war
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