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Danny Kushlick and Steve Rolles are the English activists and drug policy experts who founded the Transform Drugs Policy Institute and helped president José Mujica design Uruguay’s legal marijuana system. They advocate legalization as “a drama reduction program” to reduce crime and violence, and they propose regulating drugs through the same systems that currently exist for alcohol, tobacco, and prescriptions.
Danny Kushlick and Steve Rolles Quotes in Chasing the Scream
The Chasing the Scream quotes below are all either spoken by Danny Kushlick and Steve Rolles or refer to Danny Kushlick and Steve Rolles . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 17 Quotes
This isn’t a vision in which we lose control of drugs, Danny and Steve argue—it’s a vision in which we gain control, at last. Legalization is the only way of introducing regulation to the drug market. If this were done, the people selling drugs wouldn’t be shooting each other, any more than your local neighborhood barkeeps send hit men to slaughter each other. The users would know what they were taking. And through taxation, we would have a huge new revenue stream to educate kids and invest in reducing the real causes of addiction.
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Danny Kushlick and Steve Rolles Character Timeline in Chasing the Scream
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Chapter 17: The Man in the Well
...defying social norms during the 1960s counterculture movement. But Mujica consulted with the English scientists Danny Kushlick and Steve Rolles , who wanted to legalize drugs for the opposite reasons as Leary: to prevent young...
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Kushlick and Rolles believe that modern societies already have the framework they need to legalize drugs. They point...
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Under legalization, Kushlick and Rolles suggest, users would get pure drugs from doctors, pharmacists, and regulated stores—rather than adulterated drugs...
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Following Kushlick and Rolles ’s recommendations, Mujica’s government made it legal for Uruguayans over 21 to buy marijuana in...
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