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Record Nr.

UNINA9910530155903321

Autore

Gray James

Titolo

Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed [[electronic resource] ] : A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia PA, : Temple University Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

362.29/16/0973

362.29160973

362.2960973

Soggetti

Drug abuse -- Government policy -- United States

Drug control -- United States

Drug control

Social Welfare & Social Work

Substance Abuse

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; PART I: Introduction; PART II: Our Drug Laws Have Failed; 1 Past and Present; 2 Increased Harm to Communities; 3 Erosion of Protections of the Bill of Rights; 4 Increased Harm to Drug Users; 5 Increased Harm for the Future; PART III: Options; 6 Increased Zero Tolerance; 7 Education; 8 Drug Treatment; 9 De-profitization of Drugs; 10 Federalism, Not Federalization; PART IV: What We Can Do About It; Appendix A: Resolution; Appendix B: Government Commission Reports and Other Public Inquiries; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Our drug prohibition policy is hopeless, just as Prohibition, our alcohol prohibition policy, was before it. Today there are more drugs in our communities and at lower prices and higher strengths than ever before.We have built large numbers of prisons, but they are overflowing with non-violent drug offenders. The huge profits made from drug sales are corrupting people and institutions here and abroad. 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.Judge Gray's book drives a sta