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彻底合法化：毒品战争的真相
Legalize It All
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这篇 Harper’s 杂志文章主张彻底合法化毒品，并把尼克松时代的“毒品战争”放回政治与社会控制的脉络中，引用约翰·埃利希曼那句广为人知的说法：禁毒被用来打击嬉皮士和黑人社区。文章讨论禁毒政策的巨大代价，呼吁以公共卫生和减害取代刑事惩罚。
为什么经久不衰：它把禁毒从道德争论改写为权力与社会控制问题，那句“我们当然知道自己在撒谎”极具冲击力，使文章在毒品政策辩论中反复被引用。
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引用埃利希曼自白，认为毒品战争本质是打击异己，应转向预防和康复。
我们当时知道，不能把反战或身为黑人定为非法，但通过让公众把嬉皮士与大麻、黑人与海洛因联系起来，再对两者严加定罪，我们就能扰乱这些社区。我们可以逮捕他们的领袖、突袭他们的家、瓦解他们的集会，并在晚间新闻里夜复一夜地诋毁他们。我们知道自己在毒品问题上撒谎吗？当然知道。这基本概括了问题：它从来不是为了打击吸毒或防止其危害。现在能不能请我们把这一页翻过去？如果我们只把如今用于起诉吸毒的 10% 花在预防和康复上，那对社会的好处也会远大于四十年“战争”，更不用说隐私收益、暴力减少等等。
krylon查看英文原文
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. That sums it up pretty well. It never was about fighting drug use or preventing the harm it can do. Can we now, please, get that behind us and move on? If we only spent 10% of what we now spent on prosecuting drug use on prevention and rehabilitation, that would be a much greater service to society than fourty years of "war" have been. Not to mention the benefits for privacy, the decrease in violence and so on...
质疑埃利希曼引文的真实性，认为尼克松禁毒政策更多源于偏见和迷思，而非明确阴谋。
这篇文章里的引文充其量很可疑。没有其他证据表明埃利希曼说过这句话，尼克松档案里也没有证据支持这句引文中的指控，即使埃利希曼说过也一样。埃利希曼因水门事件坐过牢，似乎对没被赦免耿耿于怀。尼克松时期的记录显示，毒品战争其实源于尼克松固守当时流行的迷思，认为黑人、同性恋、吸毒和精神损害会危害美国。
PaulAJ查看英文原文
The quote in this article is dubious at best. There is no other evidence that Erlichman said this, and no evidence in the Nixon archives to back up allgation made in the quote, even if Erlichman had said it. Erlichman served time in prison for Watergate, and seems to have been annoyed about not being pardoned. The records from the Nixon presidency suggest that the WOD was actually driven by Nixon's fixed belief in then-prevalent myths about the danger to America from blacks, homosexuals, drug use and mental damage. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/32247/did-ehrlichman-claim-the-reason-for-the-nixon-drug-war-was-to-criminalize-black/33044#33044 https://medium.com/@ReachCASP/health-scientist-blacklisting-and-the-meaning-of-marijuana-in-the-oval-office-in-the-early-1970s-71ea41427b49#.9ksrgwmj3
主张至少非刑罪化，引葡萄牙经验称更省成本、更有效。
我不确定是否要全部合法化，但我和世界都很确定应该非刑罪化，看看这里发生的事：YouTube 链接。TL;DR：不把成瘾者边缘化（社会和法律上）并真正帮助他们的策略非常成功：降低成本、减少问题、减少成瘾者。
joantune查看英文原文
I'm not sure about legalizing it all, but me and the world is pretty sure about decriminalizing it, just watch what happened here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWpXYOg4OQ TL;DR: Highly successful strategy of not marginalizing (both socially and legally) and actually helping addicts: cuts costs, cuts problems, decreases addicts.
合法化应基于认知自由：个人有权决定自己的意识状态。
有意思的是，每当毒品合法化话题出现，很少有人从“认知自由”的角度来论证合法化。我们为什么允许某些人决定别人可以拥有哪些意识状态，这始终让我惊讶。
qbit查看英文原文
It's interesting that whenever the subject of legalizing drugs comes up, people rarely argue for legalization from the perspective of cognitive liberty. Why we allow certain people to decide what states of consciousness are allowed for other people never ceases to amaze me.
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