From: rwilson@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Randy Wilson)
Subject: New Book on Legalization
Originator: rwilson@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:40:21 GMT

I just received a new book that attempts to give the best arguments
both for and against drug legalization.  It is:

	"Drug Legalization, For and Against", 
	edited by Rod Evans and Irwin Berent,
	with a foreword by Linus Pauling and introduction by Hugh Downs, 
	331 pages, 1992, $12.95.
	from Open Court Publishing, La Salle, IL, 61301
	ISBN 0-8126-9169-5 (paperback)  (0-8126-9168-7 cloth)

	Toll Free Number for Open Court:  800-435-6850

It claims to be "the first in the 'For and Against' series".  It is a
collection of articles, arguments, and testimony about drug
legalization, attempting to give equal time to both sides.  I might
point out, however, that just discussing the issue is biased in favor
of legalization; the prohibitionists spend a lot of time trying to
keep discussion down.  It will be awhile before I have a chance to
read it, but when I do, I'll post a review and some comments.  It
looks good.

Randy

Here is the table of contents:

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	About the Contributors
	Foreword by Linus Pauling
	Introduction by Hugh Downs
	The Background to the Debate

1.	Questions to Consider

	Legalizing Drugs:  A Dangerous Idea
	Charles Rangel

2.	Introductory Arguments

	The Case for Legalization
	Ethan A. Nadelmann

	Against the Legalization of Drugs
	James Q. Wilson

3.	A Classic Correspondence:  The Economist vs. the 'Drug Czar'

	An Open Letter to Bill Bennett
	Milton Friedman
	
	A Response to Milton Friedman
	William J. Bennett

	Bennett's "Public Policy Disaster" is Already Here
	Milton Friedman

4.	Law Enforcement Responses

	Pro-Legalization Arguments Reviewed and Rejected
	Edward J. Tully and Marguerite A. Bennett

	The Drug Problem:  Is There an Answer?
	Merrill Smith

5.	Prohibition Comparisons

	We're Losing the Drug War Because Prohibition Never Works
	Hodding Carter III

	Actually, Prohibition was a Success
	Mark H. Moore

6.	Legal and Philosophical Arguments:  Is there a Right to Use Drugs?

	The Zone of Privacy and the Right to Use Drugs:  A Jurisprudential
		Critique
	John Lawrence Hill

	Drugs:  Getting a Fix on the Problem and the Solution
	Mark H. Moore

	The Legalization of Drugs:  Why Prolong the Inevitable?
	Todd Austin Brenner

	Statement of Steven Wisotsky before the Select Committee on
		Narcotics Abust and Control
	Steven Wisotsky

7.	Official Responses:  A Mayor and a 'Czar'

	Decriminalizing Drugs:  It Just Might Work--And Nothing Else Does
	Kurt L. Schmoke

	Mopping Up After the Legalizers:  What the 'Intellectual' Chorus
		Fails to Tell You
	William J. Bennett

8.	The Scope and Severity of Addiction:  Two Scientists' Divergent Views
	
	The Opium of the People:  Crack in Perspective
	Michael S. Gazzaniga

	The Decline of Drugged Nations
	Gabriel G. Nahas

9.	Scapegoats, Cycles, and Society:  The Views of Two Psychiatrists

	A Plea for the Cessation of the Longest War in the Twentieth
		Century:  The War on Drugs
	Thomas S. Szasz

	Testimony of David F. Musto for the Select Committee on Narcotics
		Abuse and Control
	David F. Musto

10.	The Journalists:  A 'Conservative' and a 'Liberal' View

	Drug Talk Across the Way
	William F. Buckley Jr.
	
	Don't Legalize Drugs:  The Costs are Still Too High
	Morton M. Kondracke

11.	Half-Measures?  Some Proposals Between the Extremes

	Should Drugs be Legalized?  The Perils at the Extremes
	Daryl Frazell

	Let Koop Do It:  A Prescription for the Drug War
	Taylor Branch

	Tough Choices:  The Practical Politics of Drug Policy Reform
	Arnold S. Trebach


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