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 . '''Why is drug policy a topic - or better: why should it be?'''
 (Here comes this Scheerer guy, always talking about drugs and drug policy, as if he can't get enough of it. Maybe he is a user. Maybe he is an addict. Maybe he is addicted to talking about drugs like other people are addicted to the substances themselves.)
-Drug policy has been one of the most significant driving forces of incarceration in the whole world. It has been the driving force in the retantion and in the re-introduction of the death penalty in the world. It has been a driving force in the infringement of human rights - from procedural guarantees to extrajudicial killings - over the last few decades. It has been instrumental in the US influencing domestic policy in Latin America and other areas of the world, and it has been a leading factor in the destroying communities through the militarization of crime control and in in the process that we are witnessing right now and that I would like to call the process of de-civilization or even the re-barbarization of the world. What do I mean by that? I mean the spread of torture and extrajudicial killings, of government-condoned cruelty.
+The world is suffering from an absurd over-incarceration. In the United States. In Brazil. In the Philippines. Single cases: Kenya. One of the main factors responsible for this tragic situation is our drug policy.
+The world is suffering from an absurd return to the Middle Ages in terms of punishments. Things that belonged to pre-modern times such as torture and the death penalty had been on the way out for something like 200 years - the gallows and the sword was replaced by the prison and rehabilitation, expressed in what Amnesty International called an irreversible worldwide trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. This trend has been reversed - over the last decades, more and more countries have decided to introduce the death penalty or to re-introduce it even for non-violent offenses. What are these offenses? Drug offenses. Drug policy is responsible for this trend.
+The world is suffering from seismic changes in the relation between individual and state rights. Individual rights have been reduced, state rights have been extended so there is less autonomy and more subordination. This is the case in criminal procedure especially in terrorism cases and in drug cases. In both cases, there is no doubt that enemy criminal law has replaced citizens' criminal law. While terrorist legislation has been important, drug legislation has been first to pave the way and to organise consensus for this development. Drug policy is responsible for the erosion of citizenship and the unhealthy growth of police powers.
+The world is suffering from ever more terrible infringements of human rights like torture and extrajudicial killings. This cannot only be attributed to the "dark side" of the war on terror. It also ahs to do with the war on drugs - and again, many of the barbaric practices in the war on terror were just copies of the models developed in the war on drugs. The militarization and barbarization of crime control is a central element of a larger process that we are witnessing today. We can call it the process of de-civilization or of the re-barbarization of the world. Drug policy is a central element of this process. And if we do not re-think and re-organize drug policy from scrap, nothing will be able to stop that.
 Does drug policy work? Is it effective? Is it efficient?