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Bad Trip: Drug Prohibition And The Weakness Of Public Policy, Randy E. Barnett
Bad Trip: Drug Prohibition And The Weakness Of Public Policy, Randy E. Barnett
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The case against prohibition is overwhelming precisely because so many different types of considerations all point to a single solution: the legalization of illicit drugs. The complexity of the case against prohibition means, however, that it cannot be presented adequately by a few anecdotes or even a lengthy essay. Nothing less than a book-length treatment will suffice and, fortunately, that book has been published. America's Longest War is an ambitious effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy of prohibition. It accomplishes this by marshalling the empirical research that has been done on both drugs and drug prohibition and then …
An Alternative Public Health Vision For A National Drug Strategy: "Treatment Works", Lawrence O. Gostin
An Alternative Public Health Vision For A National Drug Strategy: "Treatment Works", Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article returns to a war waged virtually throughout this century--a war between the theories of punishment and rehabilitation in curtailing the drug epidemic. Today, the terms of the war are recast as supply-side policies based upon law enforcement; destroying crops in source countries; interdiction and increased sentencing; and demand reduction based upon prevention, education, and treatment. The war on drugs has reached a feverish pitch. New policies and statutes have tightened the grip of supply-side policies, with images of battle and hate mongering which go beyond the vilified drug lords and governments which harbor them, to the middle men, …