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Should California Drop Criminal Penalties for Drug Possession?
Californians have a lot to consider when it comes to decriminalizing possession. But now is the time for a rigorous discussion about removing criminal penalties for drug possession, rather than rushing to judgment in the heat of a future election season.
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Jul 20, 2017
San Francisco Chronicle
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer, Robert J. MacCoun

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Drug Dependence: Treatment Over Incarceration
Drug dependence imposes significant costs to society and traditional criminal justice responses like imprisonment do not reduce crime. More quality research on alternative sanctions could help police, prosecutors, and judges expand their options while helping users get treatment.
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Oct 3, 2016
Criminal Law & Justice Weekly
Matthew Davies, Emma Disley, et al.
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New Approach to Prison and the War on Drugs
If you want to reduce cocaine consumption and drug-related crime, you get more bang for the buck if you put money into treatment rather than paying for the increase in incarceration produced by federal mandatory minimum sentences, writes Beau Kilmer.
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Aug 13, 2013
BBC.co.uk
Beau Kilmer @BeauKilmer

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

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Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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Should California Drop Criminal Penalties for Drug Possession?

Drug Dependence: Treatment Over Incarceration

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