George Soros backs Guatemalan president's call to end war on drugs

Source: Guardian

George Soros backs Guatemalan president's call to end war on drugs

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros said the war on drugs had endangered political stability and security in many countries

Graeme Wearden in Davos
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 January 2013 12.53 EST

George Soros has thrown his support behind the president of Guatemala's efforts to end the war on drugs.

Soros, who is best know for leading a run on the pound in 1992 that forced the UK out of the European exchange rate mechanism, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that world leaders had their best chance in at least two decades to rethink their approach to drugs.

"Drug policy has endangered political stability and security in many countries, and not just in Latin America," he said, citing Mali as one of several African countries to suffer.

Soros told a press conference that austerity was encouraging politicians, even in the US, to rethink the war on drugs. "Incarceration is hugely expensive … The cost of alternatives is smaller than the cost of incarceration," he said.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/23/george-soros-guatemala-war-on-drugs

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George Soros backs Guatemalan president's call to end war on drugs (Original post)	Judi Lynn	Jan 2013	OP
"Drug policy has endangered political stability and security in many countries"	think	Jan 2013	#1
HOO-boy!	Cirque du So-What	Jan 2013	#2
Drug policy	SamKnause	Jan 2013	#3
Soros is a major funder of the US drug reform movement.	Comrade Grumpy	Jan 2013	#4

Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 02:04 PM

think (2,439 posts)

1. "Drug policy has endangered political stability and security in many countries"

A profoundly damning statement by Mr. Soros as to the merits of our war on drugs......

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Wed Jan 23, 2013, 02:08 PM

Cirque du So-What (9,164 posts)

2. HOO-boy!

This is gonna raise more than a few freeper hackles.

40+ years in, and drugs have proliferated at an exponential rate, thanks in part to US government policies - both above-board and clandestine - that exacerbated the situation.

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2013, 02:33 AM

SamKnause (738 posts)

3. Drug policy

All informed and sane people are in favor of ending the 'Fake and Failed War on Drugs'.

A country that can not keep drugs out of it's own prison system should have no say in the matter.

A country that built it's prison system because of the drug wars should have no say in the matter.

A country that ignores study after study from around the globe should have no say in the matter.

A country who has infested over 80 countries with it's own corrupt and failed agency, the DEA, should have no say in the matter.

A country that fines banks for laundering drug money instead of incarcerating them should have no say in the matter.

A country that has incarcerated millions decade after decade for a drug that has never caused a single documented case of death should have no say in the matter.

No one should listen to anything the United States has to say about the war on drugs !!!!!!

Portugal should be the model all countries follow !!!!!!

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2013, 12:59 PM

Comrade Grumpy (3,739 posts)

4. Soros is a major funder of the US drug reform movement.

This is nothing new for him.

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