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Drug Precipice: Illicit Drugs, Organised Crime, Fallacies of Legalization, Worsening Problems, Solutions » Read Now
by Amol Moffitt, John Malouf, Craig Thompson. 222 pgs.

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Guide for people involved in policy formulation, drug education, health care workers and those concerned with the effects of drug use. Provides information about the health and social dangers of illicit drugs, legal drug markets and organised crime. Discusses the possible effects of decriminalising...
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Guide for people involved in policy formulation, drug education, health care workers and those concerned with the effects of drug use. Provides information about the health and social dangers of illicit drugs, legal drug markets and organised crime. Discusses the possible effects of decriminalising the use, supply and sale of illicit drugs and provides information about international drug policy and United Nations Conventions. Includes a brief history of drug use, references, a bibliography and an index. Mofitt is a former Royal Commissioner examining the infiltration of organised crime into Australia. Malouf is president of the Australian Pharmacists Against Drug Abuse and Thompson is a magistrate with experience in both adult and children's courts.
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Drugs and Drug Policy in America: A Documentary History (Part XIII "The Debate over Drug Legalization") » Read Now
by Steven R. Belenko. 380 pgs.

Collections: History, Psychology, Entire Library

Debates over the use and abuse of drugs, the laws controlling drugs in this country, and the question of whether or not certain drugs should be legally available have inflamed Americans since the 19th-century, and continue to flourish as America attempts to rage its "war on drugs." Students can...
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Debates over the use and abuse of drugs, the laws controlling drugs in this country, and the question of whether or not certain drugs should be legally available have inflamed Americans since the 19th-century, and continue to flourish as America attempts to rage its "war on drugs." Students can trace the history and development of these arguments, as well as the reactions to them, through this unique collection of over 250 primary documents. Court cases, speeches, laws, opinion pieces, and other documents bring to life the controversies surrounding the issues. Explanatory introductions to documents aid users in understanding the various arguments put forth, while illuminating the significance of each document.
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Handbook of Drug Control in the United States (Chap. 14 "Debating the Legalization of Drugs") » Read Now
by James A. Inciardi. 424 pgs.

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This timely handbook surveys the U.S. government's efforts to control illegal drugs. Inciardi and his contributors offer a useful way of thinking about and understanding the problem of illegal drugs, and provide the history of and research on drug policy so that policy makers have a necessary tool...
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This timely handbook surveys the U.S. government's efforts to control illegal drugs. Inciardi and his contributors offer a useful way of thinking about and understanding the problem of illegal drugs, and provide the history of and research on drug policy so that policy makers have a necessary tool for developing a realistic and effective national drug policy.
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The Case for Drug Legalization: We Need to Make Drugs a Controlled Substance Just like Alcohol, in World and I » Read Now
by Gary E. Johnson. 4 pgs.

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...enforce. If drugs are legalized...a new set of problems...today. A legalization model will...just doing drugs? That is the reality of what is happening...talking about...
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Drug Legalization: Time for a Real Debate, in Brookings Review » Read Now
by Paul B. Stares. 4 pgs.

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...quantities of drugs for personal...Others equate legalization, at least...acceptable if legalization could reduce...for illicit drugs while also...some forms of drug...
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Drug Policy in the Americas (Chap. 16 "Taxes, Regulations, and Prohibitions: Reformulating the Legalization Debate") » Read Now
by Peter H. Smith. 366 pgs.

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...currently illicit drugs. Proponents of legalization generally...in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic...At least as of the early...adoption of legalization within...
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Would Legalizing Drugs Serve America's National Interest?, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Dirk Chase Eldredge, Bill McCollum. 4 pgs.

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...effect will legalization have on the abuse of drugs? To answer that...true war on drugs has yet to be...on the merits of drug legalization is legitimate...associated with...
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Marijuana, Heroin, and Cocaine: The War on Drugs May Be a Disaster, but Do We Really Want a Legalized Peace?, in The American Prospect » Read Now
by Robert MacCoun, Peter Reuter. 4 pgs.

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...qualities). Would regulation of hard drugs fare better? Those who now oppose legalization often cite the United Statess...likely would be with full legalization, for...
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Legalization Madness, in Public Interest » Read Now
by James A. Inciardi, Christine A. Saum. 11 pgs.

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...careful review of the existing...literature on drugs and violence...Considering "legalization" Yet much...for the full legalization of all drugs, including...legalizing...
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Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market (Chap. 5 "The Debate on Drugs: The Lie of Legalization") » Read Now
by Thomas Szasz. 204 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

In Our Right to Drugs, Thomas Szasz shows that our present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the U.S. government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I, however, the free market in drugs was but a dim memory, if that...
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In Our Right to Drugs, Thomas Szasz shows that our present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the U.S. government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I, however, the free market in drugs was but a dim memory, if that. Instead of dwelling on the familiar impracticality or unfairness of our drug laws, Szasz demonstrates the deleterious effects of prescription laws, which place people under lifelong medical tutelage. The result is that most Americans today prefer a coercive and corrupt command drug economy to a free market in drugs. Szasz stresses the consequences of the fateful transformation of the central aim of U.S. drug prohibitions from protecting us from being fooled by "misbranded" drugs to protecting us from harming ourselves by self-medication-defined as "drug abuse". And he reminds us that the choice between self-control and state coercion applies to all areas of our lives, drugs being but one of the theaters in which this perennial play may be staged. A free society, Szasz emphasizes, cannot endure if its citizens reject the values of self-discipline and personal responsibility and if the state treats adults as if they were naughty children. In a no-holds-barred examination of the implementation of the War on Drugs, Szasz shows that under the guise of protecting the vulnerable members of our society--especially children, minorities, and the sick--our government has persecuted and injured them. Leading politicians persuade parents to denounce their children, and encourage children to betray their parents and friends--behavior that subverts family loyalties and destroys basic human decency. And instead ofprotecting blacks and Hispanics from dangerous drugs, this holy war has allowed us to persecute them, not as racists but as therapists--working selflessly to bring about a drug-free America. Last, but not least, to millions
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Shooting Dope: Career Patterns of Hard-Core Heroin Users (Chap. 8 "Implications of a Career Perspective for Drug Legalization") » Read Now
by Charles E. Faupel. 222 pgs.

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...Career 22 3. Getting into Drugs: Occasional Users 49...Junkies 111 7. Implications of a Career Perspective for Research...Implications of a Career Perspective for Drug...
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An Extensional Approach to Drug Legalization, in ETC: A Review of General Semantics » Read Now
by Martin H. Levinson. 13 pgs.

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...the effects of legalized drugs in the workplace...Others address legalization alternatives...76. If drugs become more...accessible because of legalization, how likely...a...
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Why Drug Legalization Should Be Opposed, in Criminal Justice Ethics » Read Now
by Charles B. Rangel. 1 pgs.

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...social policies. With any legalization of drugs, related problems would not...In minority communities, legalization of drugs would be a nightmare. It would...inadequate...
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Power, Ideology, and the War on Drugs: Nothing Succeeds like Failure (Chap. 7 "The Road Forward") » Read Now
by Christina Jacqueline Johns, Steven A. Egger. 212 pgs.

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Why does the administration continue to follow a drug policy of criminalization and enforcement? In this probing volume, Johns demonstrates that while the War on Drugs has been a failure in some respects, it has been highly successful in others--it has diverted attention from severe social problems...
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Why does the administration continue to follow a drug policy of criminalization and enforcement? In this probing volume, Johns demonstrates that while the War on Drugs has been a failure in some respects, it has been highly successful in others--it has diverted attention from severe social problems, legitimated the virtual abandonment of the lower class, legitimated a vast expansion of U.S. state power and a consequent erosion of civil liberties, and furthered projections of U.S. power into Latin America. This book changes a trend in the literature by unmasking the real consequences of the Drug War.
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Critics Scapegoat the Antidrug Laws; Advocates Pushing for Decriminalization of Drug Use Blame the War on Drugs for Creating an 'Incarceration Nation,' but a Hard Look at the Facts Proves Otherwise, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by James R. McDonough. 3 pgs.

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...population is overrepresentative of minorities); major illegal drugs are benign (ecstasy is "therapeutic...our examination to the realm of drugs and crime, overlooking the...