Should drugs be made legal? | US War on Drugs | US Politics | Baltimore | This Week | 1988

*Edited version of the original report*

Opinion polls in the United states have identified Drugs as easily the most important problem in the eyes of the country’s voters in this election year.
There are voices being raised that question how the drugs war is being fought, the radical alternative must be faced: Why not make drugs legal?
Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, a former State prosecutor, believes that to do so would remove the criminal profit motive and dramatically reduce the appalling drug-related crime rate. The resources saved from law enforcement should be diverted to a massive public health and education programme.

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