According to (Cedro article p.2) “the number of the drugs offenders imprisoned in the U.S. has increased 800% since 1980, and that made the U.S. achieve the highest imprisonment rate in the industrialized world”. This fact alone shows that our current system does not work and that something else must be done. Browsing thru internet I remembered Amsterdam. That city is world famous for the approach on drugs that it has taken. It’s a little crazy but it’s working. Their numbers are significantly down. “Users under the age of 22 dropped from 14.4 percent to 1.6%.” (Amsterdam p.1) Amsterdam is a city of 727,000 and total of 5,100 hard drug users. I must say those are good numbers. Would the Amsterdam model be a usef

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