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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed And What We Can Do About It : A Judicial Indictment Of The War On Drugs

Attribution
James P. Gray
Publication Details
Book, Temple University Press, 2001
Availability
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Description
Our drug prohibition policy is hopeless, just as Prohibition, our alcohol prohibition policy, was before it. And far from being protected by our drug prohibition policy, our children are being recruited by it to a lifestyle of drug use and drug selling. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Gray, James P., 1945-
Subject
- Drug abuse — Government policy — United States
- Drug control — United States
Contents
- Pt. I. Introduction
- Pt. II. Our Drug Laws Have Failed. 1. Past and Present. An Historical Perspective. Emergence of the Prison-Industrial Complex. 2. Increased Harm to Communities. Communities Awash in Illicit Drugs. Violence and Corruption. 3. Erosion of Protections of the Bill of Rights. 4. Increased Harm to Drug Users. 5. Increased Harm for the Future. Conspiracy Theories. Government Policy: Don’t Discuss It!
- Pt. III. Options. 6. Increased Zero Tolerance. 7. Education. 8. Drug Treatment. Rehabilitation. Medicalization. 9. De-profitization of Drugs. Legalization. Decriminalization. Regulated Distribution. 10. Federalism, Not Federalization
- Pt. IV. What We Can Do About It
ISBN
- 1566398606
- 1566398592
- 9781566398596
- 9781566398602
LCCN
- 00047677
Open Library ID
- /b/OL15981132M