Legalizing Marijuana
Subtitle: Drug Policy Reform and Prohibition Politics
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780275974480
Subjects: Criminal law; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Government - U.S. Government; Popular Culture - Counter Culture; Public Policy - General; Political Science / Public Policy; Drug control; Government policy; History; Marijuana; Narcotics, Control of; Therapeutic use; United States
First sentence: On Christmas Day, 1998, on a visit to a British charity hospital, Prince Charles of England advised a multiple sclerosis patient to use marijuana to relieve her pain, advice violating British law.
Description: "This book is a frontal assault on the federal government's almost century-long campaign against marijuana in all its forms - cultivation, growing, selling, and recreational and medicinal use. Beginning with the 1930s anti-pot campaign of Harry Anslinger, the first unofficial drug czar, and continuing with only minor differences in emphasis through the Reagan, Clinton, and two Bush administrations, federal efforts to stamp out every form of marijuana use have taken many forms."--BOOK JACKET.