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Drug prohibition also destroys what it is supposed to protect: the health and life of individuals, the upbringing of the young generation, and the well-being of families. Incarceration rates worldwide have risen to heights hitherto unimaginable, including those of young people and women. Once in the web of criminal justice, it is hard to get out. Life perspectives aren't exactly known to be improving after contacts with police, courts, and corrections. | Drug prohibition also destroys what it is supposed to protect: the health and life of individuals, the upbringing of the young generation, and the well-being of families. Incarceration rates worldwide have risen to heights hitherto unimaginable, including those of young people and women. Once in the web of criminal justice, it is hard to get out. Life perspectives aren't exactly known to be improving after contacts with police, courts, and corrections. | ||
Finally, legal scholars and lawyers have been forced to witness how the intricacies of organized crime have led to ever more powers granted to the state and ever less to citizens, especially when in the status of suspect or accused. The discovery and suppression of victimless crimes differs from ordinary delinquency in that it requires pro-active police work, surveillance techniques, agents provocateurs, and informants, including such emergency measures as wiretapping and large-scale surveillance. In short: it needs all the arsenal of the secret state and the secret police (and the world over, the US drug police - the Drug Enforcement Agency - and its corollaries demonstrate what that means). In legislation, this implies a number of innovations that hardly combine with traditional concepts of the rule of law and due process. The most problematic ones owe their disruptive introduction and cancer like growth in the Western world to drug fighters' lobby work. Plea bargaining, e.g., was only widely used and slowly accepted as a legitimate part of criminal trials when there was no other way to get the overload of cases worked through during the US alcohol prohibition (1920-1933). | |||
== The First Choice: Continuation, Escalation or Regulation?== | == The First Choice: Continuation, Escalation or Regulation?== | ||