Drug Legalization
Subtitle: For and Against (For and Against, Vol. 1)
Publisher: Open Court
Published: January 4, 1999
Place of publication: La Salle, IL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812691849
Subjects: Alcoholism; Citizenship & nationality law; Drug addiction & substance abuse; English Law; Social law; United States; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Reference; USA; General; Political Science / Social Policy; Drug legalization; Public Policy - Social Policy; Drug abuse
First sentence: The drug legalization debate is not a discussion that should interest only scholars and policy-makers.
Table of contents: title: Legalizing drugs : a dangerous idea / Charles B. Rangel; title: The case for legalization / Ethan A. Nadelmann; title: Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson; title: An open letter to Bill Bennett / Milton Friedman; title: A response to Milton Friedman / William J. Bennett; title: Bennett's "public policy disaster" is already here / Milton Friedman; title: Pro-legalization arguments reviewed and rejected / Edward J. Tully and Marguerite A. Bennett; title: The drug problem : is there an answer? / Merrill A. Smith; title: We're losing the drug war because prohibition never works / Hodding Carter III; title: Actually, prohibition was a success / Mark H. Moore; title: The zone of privacy and the right to use drugs : a jurisprudential critique / John Lawrence Hill; title: Drugs : getting a fix on the problem and the solution / Mark H. Moore; title: The legalization of drugs : why prolong the inevitable? / Todd Austin Brenner; title: Statement of Steven Wisotsky before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control / Steven Wisotsky; title: Decriminalizing drugs : it just might work--and nothing else does / Kurt L. Schmoke; title: Mopping up after the legalizers : what the 'intellectual' chorus fails to tell you / William J. Bennett; title: The opium of the people : crack in perspective / Michael S. Gazzaniga; title: The decline of drugged nations / Gabriel G. Nahas; title: A plea for the cessation of the longest war in the twentieth century--the war on drugs / Thomas S. Szasz; title: Testimony of David F. Musto for the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control / David F. Musto; title: Drug talk across the way / William F. Buckley Jr.; title: Don't legalize drugs : the costs are still too high / Morton M. Kondracke; title: Should drugs be legalized? : the perils at the extremes / Daryl Frazell; title: Let Koop do it : a prescription for the drug war / Taylor Branch; title: Tough choices : the practical politics of drug policy reform / Arnold S. Trebach