2/3 of Americans support the idea that drug abuse should be treated as a health issue rather than by the justices system. So why are we still filling our jails at such an alarming rate with drug offenders?
Argentine president calls for decriminalization of drug use
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner repeated her call this week to decriminalize personal drug use and crack down on traffickers and dealers.
"I don't like it when people easily condemn someone who has an addiction as if he were a criminal, as if he were a person who should be persecuted," she told a meeting of the National Investigation into the Consumption of Alcohol, Tobacco, Psychopharmaceuticals and Illegal Drugs.
"Those who should be persecuted are those who sell the substances, those who give it away, those who traffic in it."
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