Against Prohibition - An Argument for Legalising Drugs
CIS Lecture
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Dr Norm Stamper, Advisor, US Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Running Time: 75 mins
The Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting open debate on drug policy and to providing alternatives to help reduce the terrible harm and social cost caused by illicit drug use. As former Chief of Police of the Seattle Police Department, and former Executive Director of the US-based Crime Control Commission, Dr Stamper is well placed to discuss legalising illicit drugs as a strategy to combat drug abuse. He believes the so-called war on drugs is actually a war on people, with current punitive methods of dealing with the drug trade costing billions of dollars, with minimal results.
