In a statement yesterday, when she simply refused to sign the bill, Mrs. Whitman said she agreed with the aim of reducing teenage smoking but believed that education was more effective than criminalization.
The FBI's new data lays bare how the drug war continues to be a major driver of not just mass incarceration, but mass criminalization more broadly.
"By self-organizing, sex workers show they know what needs to be done to improve our lives and working conditions," said Luca. "We don't need more bad laws, criminalization or other rescue projects: we want rights and respect".
Are we going to waste more taxpayer money on criminalization and incarceration?
However, this fact no more calls for the criminalization of ibuprofen among adults than do these latest anti-pot allegations, even if true, call for the current prohibition of cannabis.
A couple of weeks ago, the British Medical Journal came out in support of the legalization of all narcotics, saying that "the war on drugs had failed" and that "there is an imperative to investigate more effective alternatives to criminalization of drug use and supply".
Attempting to implement the Swedish law in our punitive environment would most likely mean the criminalization of even more of those it's intended to help — without a Scandinavian-style safety net for those leaving the life.
Hallmarks of this policing style include more officers, more stops, and criminalization of nonviolent activities such as loitering, vandalism, smoking pot, and dancing "recklessly".
Yesterday: GC's General Counsel tells church delegates that he wishes more countries would move towards criminalization.
But, I read them as more explicit in indicting the criminalization of youthful misconduct.
