Resolution Adopted by the CCARDrug 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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