across talk what went so wrong fighting drugs i'm joined by geoffrey my run in newton he is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics at harvard university he's also a senior fellow at the cattle institute he's also me author of the book drug war crimes the consequences of prohibition and in san diego we cross to a son hutchinson he is a senior partner at the acer hutchinson law group all right gentlemen this is cross talk about means crosstalk rules in effect but before let's have a look at a show report about a forty year old war. a worldwide enterprise worth some four hundred billion dollars a year illegal drug trafficking has become one of the most ferocious lucrative businesses in the world alongside only the oil industry and the arms trade and single largest market the u.s. is also the world's biggest consumer of cocaine heroin and marijuana shipped from colombia and mexico and although the u.s. government has been hard pressed to control and tail the narcotics trade. drug related violence has spread like wildfire across latin americ

well i do but first of all i applaud geoffrey first being very honest on this and defining the debate if you want to decrease violence or the powers the cartel you have to legalize everything and i don't think that's the debate that's going to win in america or across the globe when you look at our historical experience experience though in alaska alaska decriminalized marijuana in the seventy's they recall it criminalized it in the ninety's by vote of the people because drug usage went up marijuana use usage went up and it was a concern for parents with their teens and so that is a historical experience that you know the criminalization did not work and it's a it's so i think that when you look at the cost of prohibition it's another dangerous product you want to put cocaine heroin increase methamphetamine use ecstasy use all out in the marketplace i don't think that's the solution for america jeffrey what about you know prevention because it seems like so much money is put into you know fighting this with using the military and we see that the mexicans are doing here i mean if we ju

ok gentlemen i got to geoffrey first i'm sure i'm sure both of you aware of the global commission on drug policy and it's a pretty dismal report card after spending two point five trillion dollars in fighting it's called the war on drugs jeffrey just what went wrong well give me your priority list what was this what needs to be fixed first. well i think the first thing that went wrong was thinking of the whole policy issue as a war and particular war on drugs it doesn't make that's a metaphor that doesn't make any sense drugs don't have guns drugs don't have tanks they can't fight back so war on drugs is just a non sequitur it's actually a war on people who want to consume drugs and once you think about it in those terms then it's obvious that a bunch of other bad things are going to happen we're going to spend a ton of money we're probably not going to dissuade that many people from wanting to consume drugs we're going to generate a huge black market and in black markets we have violence and corruption exactly as was documented in the lead in to this discussion and as we all know ab

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as the trials wore on he became more defiant, always accompanied by his attorney geoffrey fieger. >> it's a rare human being who can single-handedly take on an entire society and force it to focus on the suffering of other human beings. >> reporter: his final confrontation with the justice system began in 1998 when he recorded himself assisting in the suicide of thomas youk, a man suffering from lou gehrig's disease. he showed the tape on "60 minutes" and defiantly defended himself to mike wallace. >> you killed him. >> i did, but it could be manslaughter, not murder. it's not necessarily murder. i know what it is. this could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened. >> smith: he dared prosecutors to indict him again. they did, and he was convicted of second degree murder. he served eight years of his sentence but was freed from jail in 2007, promising not to break any more laws. jack kevorkian never achieved his goal of legalizing euthanasia, but he did succeed in getting an entire country to begin thinking about the right to die. even among supporters of a pat

music souls to new heights as a nasa astronauts joins that in three geoffrey thomas front not out of this world do it on windows r.t. dot com. now there's an audience national stories and very two french journalists who were being held hostage in afghanistan in free. iraq and marcus wareing one hundred forty seven days in captivity two men are suffering from in good spirits could see the reporter and his camera man who were captured in late two thousand and nine while fooling around in this area of the country. venezuela has delayed next week's major summit of latin american and caribbean leaders as good chavez and started covering from surgery in cuba comes out the state television show the thirty six year old talking to you know appearance which builds a close working relationship with his health of its own segments the celebrations marking the two hundred year anniversary of when as well as independence from spain and country not since it was rushed into emergency surgery earlier this month suffering from an abscess. the african union has condemned france for supplying weapons to

prosecutors say 33-year-old geoffrey could face the death penalty.tors say last december he killed his girlfriend, tina smith at his home. they say easily kidnapped his 12-year-old daughter. police took easily into custody after he was spot with the the girl outside a san francisco grocery store. she say she fasted today as a show of support and her friend josh who are still being held in iran. in los angeles today she made several appearances trying to keep their story in the public eye. the trial is supposed to resume last month but for some unknown reason it was canceled. >> the whole world knows they meant no harm. they've committed no crime and their tension has nothing to do with their actions and everything to do with animosity between the u.s. and iran. >> the two men have been held by iran for nearly 2 years now. they were picked up by security forces after crossing the border from iraqi into iran they said by accident. >> the number of people getting sick from a super boxic strain is still rising in europe. but officials say the out break m

prosecutors say 33-year-old geoffrey could face the death penalty.tigators say last december he killed his girlfriend, tina smith at his home. they say easily kidnapped his 12-year-old daughter. police took easily into custody after he was spot with the the girl outside a san francisco grocery store. she say she fasted today as a show of support and her friend josh who are still being held in iran. in los angeles today she made several appearances trying to keep their story in the public eye. the trial is supposed to resume last month but for some unknown reason it was canceled. >> the whole world knows they meant no harm. they've committed no crime and their tension has nothing to do with their actions and everything to do with animosity between the u.s. and iran. >> the two men have been held by iran for nearly 2 years now. they were picked up by security forces after crossing the border from iraqi into iran they said by accident. >> the number of people getting sick from a super boxic strain is still rising in europe. but officials say the out bre

he will also be meeting and having a number of press interviews along with ambassador geoffrey to make the case that iraq is worth all the effort and worth the long-term commitment we have made. thank you. >> those people might have a financial incentive to invest in iraq because it might be good for their 30 companies but the american people do not necessarily on that portfolio and will not see it that way. i will say it again -- if ain't got no one to sell yo it,u ain't got no one to buy it. i taught english better than that them of the gentleman from virginia is recognized for five minutes. >> i wonder if you could comment -- i should ask -- what is your understanding of how much funding there is in this fiscal year? >> for iraq and afghanistan? i can't speak to afghanistan. that is not in my portfolio. i believe we have requested $25 million. >> mr. crowley, are you familiar with this tax is in excess of $1 billion? >> not in iraq at the present time. i'm just talking about surp. >> i don't know with the number is. >> if it were the order of magnitude, what are the conditions on th

>> geoffrey manor. >> okay. do you know hannon cannibal? >> no. >> when were you there? >> oh, he's old. [laughter] don't worry about it. he was chaplain. >> oh, okay. i'm interested in the knowing how your transition from chicago to new england affected your choices later in life or how it changed your perspective in how you deal with things now later in the life? >> what a great question. well, you know, i'm still there. i live in a house that was on my paper route when i was a student at milton academy. um, and we have for 22 years now. and i've been, you know, in and out and traveled and lived in other, in other places, but boston which was a very fractured place around race in those days, um, but boston and massachusetts have been very good to me and my family. i will say, though, i tease the -- um, you know, i have occasions now in my current line of work to speak publicly from time to time -- [laughter] and we're doing a lot of work in how we transition our economy in massachusetts to the innovation economy of tomorrow because we've got so many strengths that are

. >> yeah, the person who was called was my old supervisor -- i worked for geoffrey goldberg & associatesor a while and she was my supervisor. so she came as a character witness. and when she -- she's the nicest and sweetest lady in the world. i mean, she really is. and she was put on the stand, and the state's attorney was asking her questions about my character, how i was when i worked at the law firm. and she said that i was pleasant and -- she had one particular word. i can't remember it right now. i can't recall -- she had one word and the state's attorney -- peaceful. >> peaceful. the state's attorney used that word to beat her up, basically. he asked her peaceful, how is he peaceful? could you tell me how he was peaceful? was he peaceful every day? really cross-examined her like she was me. and -- i mean, she was like, peaceful. he was a nice person and broke her down on the stand. >> so then -- and then jovan starts crying, cathy's is elbowing don't cry because she already said tears can be interpreted, you know, two different ways. and meanwhile i had put her on direct so it's my

it was released by a guy named robert geoffrey.years old in 1991, his family took a trip to a casino in hampton beach, new hampshire. at the casino they let guests lip-synch. robert picked madonna's song vogue. take a look. ♪ yeah, it goes on and on for the entire song. this kid like knew the entire dance routines from the video from her vogue video. it's quite -- it's a fun video. he is 29 years old now. he posted it on his -- is it vermeo? >> i don't know. anyone know? vimeo. it shows you how in touch i am. but he says madonna changed his life, continues to inspire him, just as she did 20 years ago. if you want to check out the video, check it out online. it's fun to watch. >> and he can shake his hips. got some good moves. >> wow. the amount of time he must have spent to memorize that. anyway. back to the serious stuff. up next, a scuttle a at the course out where the casey anthony murder trial is taking place. look at this. >> stop it, stop it! >> people fighting with each other, knocking a woman down, all to get into the court

an adviser with the ministry of finance in poland working with a small group headed by professor geoffrey zaks. let me introduce the remainder of the panel, going alphabetically. first is the byron ageest. he works in the fields of high tech and i t and education and economic development. he also serves as the director of the mckinsey social sector office who works with institutions and project to help improve education, health outcomes, economic growth, and prosperity. he is in washington where he has been since 2007. he is also the co-founder and board chairman of the hope st. group, a national non-partisan organization of executives, professional, an entrepreneur is working on developing public policies to expand economic opportunity. he is on a number of not for profit boards including yale, the pacific council on international policy, that she would foundation, the center for american progress and a member of the council of foreign relations. he was the co-author of the report you are seeing today. to his left is martin bailey. he rejoined brookings in september, 2007 to develop a pr