Legalization/Regulation of Drug Distribution and Use

Legalize Drugs or Expect More Mass Graves By CJPF President Eric E. Sterling. Los Angeles Times, December 6, 1999. In the op-ed, Sterling argues that our current drug policy fuels violence because it is the only means that drug traffickers have of resolving business conflicts. The op-ed also appeared in the Houston Chronicle on December 8 and in about a dozen other newspapers across the country.

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Drug Policy: A Smorgasbord of Conundrums Spiced By Emotions Around Children and Violence By Eric E. Sterling. Valparaiso Law Review. Spring 1997, Volume 31, Number 2. This excerpt is from a 49-page law review comment in a 500-page symposium volume, "Juvenile Crime: Policy Proposals on Guns, Violence, Drugs and Gangs," addresses the complexities of drug policy and how it is shaped by concerns about children and public safety. Discusses availability of illegal drugs, drug use by children, the "right" to use drugs, crack markets and violence, drug dealing by adolescents, the handicap of drug prohibition on urban redevelopment, and issues regarding medical marijuana. It responds to two articles, one by Daniel D. Polsby, and one by Mark A.R. Kleiman.