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Drug
War Failure
Sterling, E.E.
(2004). Drug
Policy: A Challenge of values. Criminal Justice:
Retribution vs. Restoration. New York: Haworth Press. This paper argues that the war on drugs is based on retributive values that are illogical, burden the criminal justice system, and are ineffective in reducing drug-related harm.
Debunking the Drug
Legalization Myth by CJPF President Eric
E. Sterling, October 10, 2002. The
following is an unpublished letter to the editor in
response to a Washington Post article by DEA
Administrator Asa Hutchinson entitled, "Drug
Legalization Doesn't Work".
Change the Focus
on Drugs By CJPF president
Eric E. Sterling. The Christian
Science Monitor, September 23, 2002. This letter
to the editor examines how, contrary to claims by the
government, drug prohibition could never significantly
reduce the availability of drugs. It was a response
to an article entitled, "Super-speedboats
piloting Colombia's cocaine trade."
Illegal
Drug Trade is Environmental Crisis, CJPF
President Eric E. Sterling writes about the devastating
impact the failed war on drugs has had on our environment.
February 21, 2002
The
War on Drugs: Fighting Crime or Wasting Time?
A debate between Congressman Bob
Barr and Eric E. Sterling, Fall 2001: published by the
American Criminal Law Review, Georgetown University
Law Center.
The
public sees the war on drugs as a failure but is confused
about "what works." Comments
by CJPF president Eric E. Sterling at the release
of the Center for National Policy report "The War on
Drugs: Do the American People Have Battle Fatigue?"
The report was based on findings by the PEW Research
Center for the People and the Press and can be found
at www.people-press.org,
August 1, 2000.
Statement
of Eric E. Sterling to the Subcommittee on Treasury,
Postal Service and General Government of the Committee
on Appropriations,
U.S. House of Representatives. The testimony to Congress
challenges "Drug Czar" Gen. Barry McCaffrey's contention
that the U.S. is winning the drug war, and urges a more
sensible and humane approach to drug abuse. A press
release regarding the 2000 National Drug Control Strategy
is available here,
March 23, 2000.
Prominent
U.S. and Latin Leaders Reject U.S. Export of Failed
Drug War-
November 2, 1999 Press Release
The
Untold Drug Bust
By Eric E. Sterling. The Washington Times, September
3, 1999, p. A17. The op-ed discusses how reporting of
the airline drug bust in Miami on August 25 is reminiscent
of Vietnam-style "body count" journalism, and how such
reports come at the expense of reporting on the more
effective policies of drug prevention and treatment.
A similar op-ed was published in the Salt Lake Tribune
on September 5, p. AA5, and a shorter version was published
as a letter to the editor in USA Today on September
13, p. 26A.
Testimony
of Eric E. Sterling on
behalf of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation to
the Subcommittee on Crime Committee on the Judiciary,
U.S. House of Representatives on D.E.A. Oversight -
July 29, 1999
Crises
of the Anti-Drug Effort, 1999 By CJPF Research Manager
Chad Thevenot. Washington, DC: Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation. March 18, 1999. Details major problems with
current anti-drug strategy and proposed reforms. Covers
issues such as mandatory minimum sentencing, the prison
boom, racial disparity, law enforcement corruption and
misconduct, erosion of civil liberties, international
developments, drug treatment, and harm reduction. (pdf
file available)
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