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Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
Drug Trade and Drug Legislation
Adopted by the 104th Annual Convention of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Montreal, Quebec, June 1993
WHEREAS, the overall situation regarding the use of drugs in our society
and the crime and misery that accompanies it has continued to deteriorate
for several decades, and
WHEREAS, our society has continued to attempt, at enormous financial cost,
to resolve drug abuse problems through the criminal justice system, with
the accompanying increases of prisons and numbers of inmates, and
WHEREAS, the huge untaxed revenues generated by the illicit drug trade
are undermining legitimate governments world-wide, and
WHEREAS, the present system has spawned a cycle of hostility by the incarceration
of disproportionate numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, and other
minority groups, and
WHEREAS, the number of people who have contracted AIDS, hepatitis, and
other diseases from contaminated hypodermic needles is epidemic under
our present system, and
WHEREAS, in our society's zeal to pursue our criminal approach, legitimate
medical uses for the relief of pain and suffering of patients have been
suppressed.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that our society must recognize drug use and
abuse as the medical and social problems that they are and that they must
be treated with medical and social solutions, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an objective commission be immediately empowered
by Congress to recommend revision of the drug laws of the United States
in order to reduce the harm our current policies are causing.
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See http://data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/resodisp.pl?file=drugs&year=1993
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