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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Laura E Huggins |
| ISBN: | 0817946527 9780817946524 |
| OCLC Number: | 58985851 |
| Description: | xvii, 302 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / John Raisian -- Introduction / Laura Huggins -- Part 1. Background -- American drug policy: the continuing debate / James A. Inciardi -- Statutes and legal requirements / Howard Abadinsky -- Years of America's drug war / Public Broadcasting Service -- Part 2. Foundation -- Philosophical underpinnings / Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter -- The American ambivalence: liberty vs. utopia / Thomas Szasz -- Hidden paradigms of morality in debates about drugs: historical and policy shifts in British and American drug policies / John Jay Rouse and Bruce D. Johnson -- Part 3. A few perspectives -- Academic -- There's no justice in the war on drugs / Milton Friedman -- Don't surrender: the drug war worked once. It can again / William J. Bennett -- Flashback -- An open letter to Bill Bennett / Milton Friedman -- Should drugs be legalized? / William J. Bennett -- Media -- Just say no: governments war on drugs fails / John Stossel -- A war worth fighting / Lou Dobbs -- Law enforcement -- The American junkie / Joseph D. McNamara -- Congressional testimony in opposition to drug legalization / Bruce D. Glasscock -- Part 4. Getting specific -- Legalization -- Introduction -- Drug legalization / Enotes -- The case for legalisation: time for a puff of sanity / The Economist -- Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson -- Decriminalization -- Introduction -- Alternative perspective on the drug policy debate / Duane McBride, Yvonne Terry, and James A. Inciardi -- The decriminalization alternative / Sam Staley -- The great policy debate--what means this thing called decriminalization? / Ronald Bayer -- Harm reduction -- Introduction -- Should harm reduction be our overall goal in fighting drug abuse? / Charles Levinthal -- A new direction for drug education: harm reduction / David F. Duncan -- Has the war on drugs reduced crime? / Robert E. Peterson -- Snapshot -- Reducing harm: treatment and beyond / Drug Policy Alliance -- Part 5. What about marijuana -- An end to marijuana prohibition / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- No surrender the drug war saves lives / John P. Walters -- Snapshot -- Western states back medical marijuana / MSNBC -- Part 6. A European outlook -- The changing face of European drug policy--drug intelligence brief / Drug Enforcement Administration -- Europe's more liberal drug policies are not the right model for America / Drug Enforcement Administration -- Snapshot -- Does Europe do it better? / Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter -- Conclusion -- A blueprint for peace: ending the war on drugs / Ted Galen Carpenter -- Compassionate crusade--Drug Abuse Resistance Education Conference speech 2001 / Asa Hutchinson. |
| Series Title: | Hoover Institution Press publication, no. 539 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Laura E. Huggins. |
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