The Drug Legalization Debate / Edition 1

by James A. Inciardi

Overview

Retaining the focus and the spirit of the acclaimed First Edition, The Drug Legalization Debate, Second Edition, addresses the major issues involved in the continuing drug legalization debate - including deterrence, treatment, education, and prevention. It also examines drug use trends at the end of the millennium, the use of cannabis as a wonder drug and a look at whether legalizing drugs would really reduce violent crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761906896
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/01/1999
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

American Drug Policy - James A Inciardi
The Continuing Debate
Alternative Perspectives on the Drug Policy Debate - Duane C Mc Bride, Yvonne M Terry and James A Inciardi
Legalizing Drugs - James A Inciardi
Would It Really Reduce Violent Crime?
The Marijuana Legalization Debate - Michael L Dennis and William White
Is There a Middle Ground?
Cannabis, The Wonder Drug - Lester Grinspoon
Thinking About the Drug Policy Debate - Erich Goode
Why the Drug War Will Never End - Steven Jonas
War Is Still Not the Answer - Karst K Besteman
Commonsense Drug Policy - Ethan A Nadelmann

Editorial Reviews

A former assistant surgeon general, drug policy analysts, substance abuse treatment personnel, and researchers offer nine perspectives on the failing US war on illegal drugs. Positions along the policy debate continuum are categorized in a historical and shifting drug use pattern context as: prohibition, harm reduction, medicalization, legalization/regulation, and decriminalization. Within the consensus that "war is still not the answer," questions are addressed about whether legalizing drugs would reduce violent crime and if there is a middle ground in the marijuana legalization debate. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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