An edition of Drug legalization
(2014)
Drug legalization
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Presents essays which give varying viewpoints on the legalization of drugs, discussing such topics as the success of the government's war on drugs, the need to reform current drug policy, and whether marijuana laws should be relaxed.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Drug control, Drug legalization, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Law & Crime, Government policy, Drugs, Law and legislation, Drug legalization,, Juvenile literature, Drug abuse, Drugs, juvenile literature, Drugs, law and legislationPlaces
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Drug legalization
2014, Greenhaven Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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0737762756 9780737762754
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Table of Contents
1. Is the prohibition of drugs failing? Overview: Is the war on drugs nearing an end? / Matt Sledge
The war on drugs is not working / Doug Bandow
Prohibition of marijuana unnecessarily criminalizes young minorities / Harry Levine
The prohibition of drugs is working and should continue / John P. Walters
Drug legalisation : an evaluation of the impacts on global society / Drug Free America Foundation, Inc.
2. Is drug use dangerous for society? Overview: Drug use in the United States / Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Marijuana use harms health and is addictive / National Institute on Drug Abuse
Drug use negatively impacts health, productivity, and crime / United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Methamphetamine and other drugs are not as dangerous as alleged / Carl Hart, interviewed by Reason.com
Drug prohibition is more dangerous than decriminalization / David Boaz
3. Should marijuana be legalized? Overview: For first time, Americans favor legalizing marijuana / Art Swift
The war on marijuana targets individuals of color / American Civil Liberties Union
Marijuana should be legalized and not just decriminalized / Drug Policy Alliance
Medical marijuana should be legalized / Marijuana Policy Project
Marijuana legalization is a bad idea for the United States / Office of National Drug Control Policy
Medical marijuana in plant form should not be legalized / Smart Approaches to Marijuana
4. How should US drug policy be reformed? Overview: Public opinion on drug policy / Pew Research Center
Have we lost the war on drugs? / Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy
Legalizing drugs / R.R. Reno
Legal, regulated heroin could have saved Philip Seymour Hoffman / Valerie Vande Panne
Heroin and rational choice / Jonah Goldberg
There is no moral justification for the prohibition of drugs / Matthew Feeney
Drug legalization will have positive and negative consequences / Jeffrey A. Miron.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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