Quotes about Prison Population from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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| "About 16 percent of the federal prison population were drug offenders in 1970 and by 1994 the proportion had risen to 62 percent, and was expected to reach 72 percent by 1997. While the drug war has fueled a major crisis in the prison system it has had little effect on the drug problem: the national prison population has doubled since 1982, and even tripling prison capacity would not
A QUESTIONABLE VALUE SYSTEM. PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL BRIDGES. cause significant reduction in drug availability. In 1994 about two hundred thousand people were in state and federal prisons for drug offenses." - Rowan Robinson, The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant (Get the book.) |
 "To legalize hard drugs would halve the number of crimes in some countries and halve the prison population.
The alternative is to be truly severe about drugs and it is a fact that a drug-free city-state like Singapore, though denied other freedoms, is far less ridden by other crime than cities where drugs are in evidence. Though Singapore has no exact equivalent amongst other cities, the point is valid. But Singapore, like a few other countries, has the death penalty for some drug offences.
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The choice, when it comes to hard drugs, is fairly simple."- Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) |
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