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PROS AND CONS OF DRUG LEGALIZATION,
DECRIMINALIZATION, AND HARM REDUCTION

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE,

DRUG POLICY, AND HUMAN RESOURCES

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT REFORM

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

JUNE 16, 1999

Serial No. 106-99

Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Reform

Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.gpo.gov/congress/house
http://www.house.gov/reform

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 2000

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM

DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman

KEVIN BINGER, Staff Director

DANIEL R. MOLL, Deputy Staff Director

DAVID A. KASS, Deputy Counsel and Parliamentarian
CARLA J. MARTIN, Chief Clerk

PHIL SCHILIRO, Minority Staff Director

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE, DRUG POLICY, AND HUMAN RESOURCES

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CONTENTS

Hearing held on June 16, 1999

Statement of:

Leshner, Alan, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse; and Donnie

Marshall, Deputy Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration

McCaffrey, General Barry R., Director, Office of National Drug Control

Policy

McDonough, James, director, Office of Drug Control Policy, State of Flor-
ida; Scott Ehlers, senior policy analyst, Drug Policy Foundation; Robert
L. Maginnis, senior director, Family Research Council; David Boaz,
executive vice president, Cato Institute; and Ira Glasser, executive
director, American Civil Liberties Union

Letters, statements, et cetera, submitted for the record by:

Page

1

104

30

149

Boaz, David, executive vice president, Cato Institute, prepared statement

of

223

Ehlers, Scott, senior policy analyst, Drug Policy Foundation, prepared

statement of

177

Gilman, Hon. Benjamin A., a Representative in Congress from the State
of New York, Tom Constantine's paper

11

Glasser, Ira, executive director, American Civil Liberties Union:

Article dated December 29, 1997

284

Prepared statement of

Report entitled, “Narrow Pathways to Prison: The Selective Incarcer-

ation of Repeat Drug Offenders in New York State"

Kucinich, Hon. Dennis J., a Representative in Congress from the State
of Ohio, prepared statement of Kevin Sabbitt

167

251

5

Leshner, Álan, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, prepared
statement of

107

Maginnis, Robert L., senior director, Family Research Council, prepared
statement of

200

Marshall, Donnie, Deputy Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion, prepared statement of

120

McCaffrey, General Barry R., Director, Office of National Drug Control
Policy, prepared statement of

33

McDonough, James, director, Office of Drug Control Policy, State of Flor-
ida, prepared statement of

151

Mica, Hon. John L., a Representative in Congress from the State of

Florida:

Towns, Hon. Edolphus, a Representative in Congress from the State
of New York, prepared statement of

98

(III)