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The Public Interest. 92. pp. 1-45. Siegel, Ronald K. Cocaine Hallucinations. Am. J. Psychiatry. 135 (3), pp. 309-314. March 1978. an investigation of drugs and the higher consciousness. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1996, 225 pages. PERSONAL CONVERSATIONS Personal conversation with Inspector Nelson Grillo, Director, District of ( Personal conversation with Robert Payal of the Ethics and Public Policy Personal conversation with Assistant U.S. Attorney John Stevens, U.S. Testimony of Paul Moore, September 29, 1988 Chairman Rangel, Committee -mezbera: * My name is Paul Moore. I am the Community Liaison for the Scott Newman Center. Since 1980, the Center has been dedicated to Our efforts include preventing drug abuse through education. media education and the development of prevention films, school curricula and books aimed at young people and their parents. Our Center's headquarters is in Los Angeles, and as an Angeleno, I am intimately aware of how smog affects us. At its most benign it obscures a clear view of reality; at its worst it is unhealthful and may cause permanent damage to your health, even death. The same can be said about the legalization of drugs. " The Center is unequivocally opposed to the legalizing of drugs. The more time we spend debating this polluted idea, the more currency we give it, the greater risk we run of permanently damaging our society. Why are we not spending this time in the more constructive task of developing sound prevention, treatment and rehabilitation policies? The answer, of course,, is that the topic of legalization is media-glamorousy and makes for a facile, sensationalized discussion on talk shows, in op-ed pages and in newsmagazines. We as a society seem addicted to the hype of miracle solutions that look good but don't work. In arguing for the legalization of drugs, proponents mistake effect for cause. In their simplistic world view, crime and official corruption here and abroad seem to have been invented by illegal drugs, and only the magic word--legalization--is needed for these problems to disappear. Do they think the American public just fell off the turnip truck? Testimony of Paul Moore, September 29, 1988 THE SCOTT NEWMAN CENTER Drugs, drug abuse and associated crime are the ugly, visible sores of deeply rooted problems in our society, nation, and world. They are the chickens of neglect coming home to roost. Drugs did not invent poverty, broken homos, gangs or unstable, profiteering foreign governments. Drugs did not invent greed, nor latchkey children, nor the human desire for a quick fix and easy out. Nor, for that matter, did drugs invent the general breakdown of moral and ethical values, Without drugs, these problems remain. With legalized drugs, they become more insidious, more intractable, because society will have deemed one more poison legally acceptable. There is a darker, underlying current in the arguments for legalization--that somehow, if only we would let the ghettoes and barrios have the drugs we assume they want, the druggles won't be breaking into the homes and apartments of the rest of us. We will have "sanitized" the problem. The facts are, of course, that drug use and abuse extend well beyond ghettoes and barrios to suburban living rooms and backyards. ghettoes Not only is such a thought immoral and irresponsible, it accepts real suffering from drug use and abuse as a "cost-effective" trade-off for an imagined decrease in crime. We at the Center do not believe in benign neglect. The Center, already deeply concerned about media influences, is horrified at the possibility of sending a whole new set of mixed messages to our young people. Let's be honest with ourselves: drugs already have a glamorous and sexy image. If we legalize them, we won't be able to keep drugs--anymore than we have cigarettes and alcohol--out of the hands of our kids. Our national efforts in the past decade have resulted in a measurable effect on drug consumption and, more importantly, in attitudes towards drug use among youth. |