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Jan. 15th, 2007 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI saw an article today on Canada's equivalent of the "War on Drugs". I was skimming through it when I found a golden quote near the bottom of the article.
An Ottawa RCMP officer who helps run the program said that while there's little scientific proof it works, he believes it is successful.
This is, alas, the shared opinion of pretty much everybody who supports this kind of program. They believe that it is working, in spite of all the hard evidence to the contrary. Perhaps all we need to do is pour more money and manpower into it, may be expand our prisons...
An Ottawa RCMP officer who helps run the program said that while there's little scientific proof it works, he believes it is successful.
This is, alas, the shared opinion of pretty much everybody who supports this kind of program. They believe that it is working, in spite of all the hard evidence to the contrary. Perhaps all we need to do is pour more money and manpower into it, may be expand our prisons...
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Date: 2007-01-15 10:09 pm (UTC)An Ottawa RCMP officer who helps run the program said that while there's little scientific proof it works, he believes it is successful.
That same logic appears to apply to so many things unfortunately. Hell, even when it can be proved it's not working, people will say that all it needs is more time.
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Date: 2007-01-16 08:44 am (UTC)