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Foreign Policy / By Ethan Nadelmann
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It's Time to Legalize Drugs

Rhetoric should not be driving drug policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is: a health issue.
December 20, 2007  |  
 
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Ethan Nadelmann is founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.
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