Download or read book Drug War Crimes written by Jeffrey A. Miron and published by Independent Institute. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced and sophisticated analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of enforcing drug prohibition is presented in this book. Miron argues that prohibition's effects on drug use have been modest and that prohibition has numerous side effects, most of them highly undesirable. In particular, prohibition is shown to directly increase violent crime, even in cases where it deters drug use. Miron's analysis leads to a disturbing finding—the more resources given to the fight against drugs, the greater the homicide rate. The costs and benefits of several alternatives to the war on drugs are examined. The conclusion is unequivocal and states that any of the most widely discussed alternatives is likely to be a substantial improvement over current policy.
Download or read book The Legalization of Drugs written by Doug Husak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States today, the use or possession of many drugs is a criminal offense. Can these criminal laws be justified? What are the best reasons to punish or not to punish drug users? These are the fundamental issues debated in this book by two prominent philosophers of law. Douglas Husak argues in favor of drug decriminalization, by clarifying the meaning of crucial terms, such as legalize, decriminalize, and drugs; and by identifying the standards by which alternative drug policies should be assessed. He critically examines the reasons typically offered in favor of our current approach and explains why decriminalization is preferable. Peter de Marneffe argues against drug legalization, demonstrating why drug prohibition, especially the prohibition of heroin, is necessary to protect young people from self-destructive drug use. If the empirical assumptions of this argument are sound, he reasons, drug prohibition is perfectly compatible with our rights to liberty.
Download or read book The Crisis in Drug Prohibition written by David Boaz and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1991-03-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of those converts, who have given the idea its new respectability, are included in this book: Baltimore mayer Kurt Schmoke, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, columnists Anthony Lewis and William F. Buckley, Jr., New York legislator Joseph Galiber, social policy analyst Charles Murray, economist Thomas Sowell, the editors of The Economist, and two of the leading scholarly proponents of drug legalization, Ethan A. Nadelmann of Princeton University and James Osnowski of Citizens Against Prohibition. This volume provides an introduction to the legislation alternative. It is must reading for any American seriously concerned about drugs, the drug war, and what they are doing to America.
Download or read book The Legalization of Drugs written by Doug Husak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents two philosophical views on the legalization of drugs.
Download or read book Drug Prohibition written by Alex Wodak and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 69 years of banning cannabis and 42 years of banning heroin in Australia, it is clear that prohibition has been a resounding and expensive failure. Regulating cannabis sales in the first instance and providing heroin through clinics to selected long-term users will take the profit out of the black market, reduce deaths and disease, lessen crime and corruption and save the community a fortune. The latest in the controversial Frontlines pamphlet series from UNSW Press, this book, by a doctor who works with drug users and a policy adviser to politicians, argues that we are nearing the end of the prohibition era. Stressing that we must live in the world as it is rather than the world as we would like it to be, the authors explain why we should change our drug laws and describe some possible reforms. They also correct popular misconceptions about illicit drugs and answer some frequently asked questions.
Download or read book Fixing Drugs written by S. Pryce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and engaging book, Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why do governments persist with prohibition policies, despite their proven inefficacy? Why are some drugs criminalized, and some not? And why does society care about drug use at all? Pryce guides us through drug policy around the world.
Download or read book Fixing Drugs written by S. Pryce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and engaging book, Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why do governments persist with prohibition policies, despite their proven inefficacy? Why are some drugs criminalized, and some not? And why does society care about drug use at all? Pryce guides us through drug policy around the world.
Download or read book After Prohibition written by Timothy Lynch and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 10 years ago, federal officials boldly claimed that they would create a 'drug-free America by 1995.' To reach that objective, Congress spent billions on police, prosecutors, drug courts, and prisons. Despite millions of arrests and countless seizures, America is not drug free. Illegal drugs are as readily available today as ever before. Drug prohibition has proven to be a costly failure. Like alcohol prohibition, drug prohibition has created more problems than it has solved.
Download or read book Busted written by Susan C. Boyd and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-10T00:00:00Z with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-listed for the George Ryga Award. Canada’s drug laws are constantly changing. But what does Canada’s history of drug prohibition say about its future? Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing over 170 archival and contemporary drawings, paintings, photographs, film stills and official documents from the 1700s to the present, Susan Boyd shows how Canada’s drug prohibition policies evolved and were shaped by white supremacy, colonization, race, class and gender discrimination. This history demonstrates that prohibition and criminalization produces harm rather than benefits, including the arrest of thousands of Canadians each year for cannabis-related offences, and the current drug overdose crisis. . Visually engaging and approachably written, Busted is a timely examination of Canada’s history of drug control and movements against that control. Susan Boyd argues that in order to chart the future, it is worthwhile for us as Canadians to know our history of prohibition and how it continues to intersects with colonization and race, class, and gender injustice.
Download or read book The Drug Legalization Debate written by James A. Inciardi and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-08-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely revised and updated secong edition of the Drug Legalization Debate continues to address, and offer alternatives to, the major issues.
Download or read book The Drug Legalization Debate written by James A. Inciardi and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-08-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retaining the focus and spirit of the widely adopted and acclaimed first edition, The Drug Legalization Debate, Second Edition, offers several alternatives and addresses the major issues involved in the continuing drug legalization debate. This volume delves into the history of drug use and abuse in America and the federal government′s approach to drug control—including deterrence, treatment, education, and prevention. Chapters confront topics such as the decriminalization of marijuana, the risk of the war on drugs, an enlightened legalization policy, and discussion of the ethical and legal dilemmas at stake. Updates of retained chapters and new chapters deal with drug use trends of the ′90s, including the use of cannabis as a wonder drug and a look at whether legalizing drugs would really reduce violent crime. In addition, the second edition features a substantive introduction and closes with Paul Stares′ acclaimed piece titled "Drug Legalization: Time for a Real Debate." Students and professionals in substance abuse, criminology, sociology, psychology, and social work will find this book essential reading.
Download or read book Economics of Prohibition The written by Mark Thornton and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2014 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the failure of Prohibition; discusses how this analysis can be applied to the effects of illegal drugs on today's economy.
Download or read book Drug Legalization written by Rod L. Evans and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should drugs be legalized? A few years ago this question was not taken seriously by mainstream opinion, but more recently an increasing number of leading figures have spoken out for legalization, and polls show that a growing percentage of the public favors legalization. This book gives a fair and balanced presentation of both sides in the debate over drug legalization, as well as some of the intermediate positions. It contains the most important articles to have appeared from the beginning of the legalization controversy and clearly sets out all the key arguments on both sides. - Back cover.
Download or read book Drugs and Society written by Jefferson M. Fish and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this edited collection is a thoughtful multidisciplinary presentation of past and present U.S. drug policies and whether they are winning the so-called war on drugs (they aren't!). For the great majority of ills ascribed to "drugs" are actually caused by the black market created by drug prohibition; the more successful the war on drugs is in making the drug trade a dangerous business, the greater are the profits from increased prices, and hence the greater the incidence of disease, corruption, social disorder, and death. Drugs and Society provides individuals with the information they need to construct an alternative policy.
Download or read book Blowing Smoke written by Michael J. Reznicek and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blowing Smoke argues that we are losing the drug war because of our devotion to the disease model of substance abuse. That model has become the driving force for our two main strategies in the war: prohibition laws and drug rehab. The book traces the history and science behind each to show how they paradoxically enable drug use.
Download or read book An Analysis of Marijuana Policy written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defenders of marijuana use may seize on the ambiguity or absence of evidence for such damage and ignore any other effects on education or safety; those opposed to marijuana use may emphasize the possibility of chronic disease that is suggested by some laboratory findings and ignore the social, political, and economic costs of fighting a well-established custom. The Committee wishes to make clear what it regards as the limits of this report for the selection of policy alteratives. Scientific judgment can estimate the prevalence of different kinds of use, risks to health, economic costs, and the like under current policies and can try to project such estimates for new policies. It can come to some conclusions based on those estimates. But selection of an alternative is always a value-governed choice, which can ultimately be made only by the political process.
Download or read book America s Longest War written by Steven B. Duke and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's war on drugs. It makes headlines, tops political agendas and provokes powerful emotions. But is it really worth it? That’s the question posed by Steven Duke and Albert Gross in this groundbreaking book. They argue that America’s biggest victories in the war on drugs are the erosion of our constitutional rights, the waste of billions of dollars and an overwhelmed court system. After careful research and thought, they make a strong case for the legalization of drugs. It’s a radical idea, but has its time come?
