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Pro-Legalization Books
(24 titles)
| Beyond the War on Drugs : Overcoming a Failed Public Policy By Steven Wisotsky, Thomas Szasz Paperback – 279 pages Reprint (April 1990) Price: $21.95 |
Documents the failure of the drug war and calls for decriminalization–or legalization–of drugs in order to stop America’s destructive strategy. |
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| The Case for Legalizing Drugs By Richard Lawrence Miller Hardcover – 247 pages (March 1991) Price: $29.95 |
Historian Richard Lawrence Miller explores the origins, purposes, and effects of America’s drug war. This book assembles diverse findings by chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, prosecutors, police officers, and drug users themselves. The resulting mosaic argues that most problems associated with illicit drugs are caused by laws restricting them. Mass of documentary evidence. Thoroughly annotated and footnoted. |
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| Diseasing of America : How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control By Stanton Peele |
In this plainspoken critique of America’s whole approach to addiction, Peele attacks the “addiction as disease” model promoted by AA and NA drug treatment centers. This book is an indictment of the destructive belief that all deviant |
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| Drug Control in a Free Society By James B. Bakalar, Lester Grinspoon Paperback (March 1988) Price: $17.95 |
A provocative analysis of the philosophical, sociological, and historical background of the attempt to control consciousness-altering drugs in modern industrial societies. Compares the individual’s rights with those of the government and its obligations to protect its citizens. |
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| Drug Control Policy : Essays in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Issues in Policy History, #1) By William O. Walker (Editor) Paperback – 176 pages (April 1992) Price: $13.95 |
Essays on drug control policy from a variety of perspectives. | (no image available) |
| Drug Crazy : How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out By Michael Gray |
Six years in the writing, Drug Crazy offers a gripping account of the stunning violence, corruption, and chaos that have characterized America’s drug war since its inception in 1914. Weaving a provocative analogy between the drug scene today and the failure of Prohibition in the 1920s, Drug Crazy argues that the greatest danger we face is prohibition itself. Whether he’s writing about the American government’s strong-arm tactics |
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| Drug Hate and the Corruption of American Justice By David Baggins Hardcover (June 1998) Price: $49.95 |
According to this book, the hatred of drugs has fundamentally shifted US policy to a punitive orientation. This triumph of drug hate corrupts the criminal justice system, exacerbates class inequality, drains public resources, and denies the public their Constitutional heritage. The author, David Baggins, is Associate Professor of Political Science |
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| Drug Legalization : For and Against By Rod L. Evans (Editor) Hardcover – 331 pages (July 1992) Price: $32.95 |
The list of contributors to this volume is impressive. The chapters offer a balanced presentation of arguments on both sides of the debate. Contributors to this volume include: William J. Bennett, William F. |
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| Drug War Politics : The Price of Denial By Eva Bertram (Editor), Kenneth Sharpe, Peter Andreas |
Through interviews with health-care specialists, law enforcement officials, and drug users, the authors -who constitute a drug policy think-tank- illustrate that America’s war on drugs must be immediately revamped. |
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| Drug Warriors and Their Prey : From Police Power to Police State By Richard Lawrence Miller |
The war on drugs is a war on ordinary people. Using that premise, historian Richard Lawrence Miller analyzes America’s drug war. Miller presents numerous examples of drug law enforcement gone amok, as police and courts threaten the happiness, property, and even lives of victims – some of whom are never charged with a drug crime, let alone convicted of one. Miller contends that an imaginary “drug crisis” has been manufactured |
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| Drugs : Should We Legalize, Decriminalize or Deregulate? By Jeffrey A. Schaler (Editor) |
A diverse collection of views on drug legalization, decriminalization, and deregulation. Essays by William Bennett, Thomas Szasz, George Will, and many others. Ethical questions, and anthropological, sociological, economic, political, and philosophical perspectives. Debates the best alternatives to prohibition. |
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| Ending the War on Drugs : A Solution for America By Dirk Chase Eldredge Hardcover – 288 pages (September 1998) Price: $16.07 |
A conservative Republican examines how and why America is losing the war against illegal drugs- and presents a case for carefully controlled legalization. The implications for crime and public health, overburdened courts and prisons, official corruption, civil rights, and other elements of society are thoughtfully and provocatively analyzed. Eldredge proposes that Congress pass legislation allowing states to |
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| How to Legalize Drugs By Jefferson M. Fish (Editor) |
First part of book explains the libertarian cost-benefit analysis of why drugs should be legal. Shows how the street use of hard drugs is more result than cause of misery of marginalization. Second part describes different approaches to legalizing drugs. |
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| In the Shadow of the Dope Fiend : America’s War on Drugs By William Weir |
Reviews the social history of America’s crusades against drugs, blaming moralists, politicians, profiteers and thugs for establishing a dope fiend myth that continues to distort public policy. Covers the roles of organized crime and various government agencies in this illicit trade, the place of flower children and the Vietnam War in defining drug mythology, and the impact of drug war culture on our communities, police, and courts. Compendium of the case against prohibition as a solution to drug use |
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| Legalization : A Debate (The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs, Series ii) Eliot Marshall, et al / Library Binding / Published 1988 |
Rigorous analysis of all aspects of the tireless marijuana legalization debate. |
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| Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences : Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers’ Money? by Jonathan P. Caulkins (Editor) |
Uses intensively researched cost-effectiveness analysis to prove that mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are costly and ineffective. After spending nine years studying drug policy, Jonathan Caulkins, 31, |
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| Marihuana Reconsidered Lester, M.D. Grinspoon / Paperback / Published 1994 |
Thorough debunking of many common misperceptions about marijuana. Detailed pharmacology and chemistry which could be too much for the layman, but certainly fascinating and informative. |
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Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts: A Review Of The Scientific Evidence
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| Marijuana : Not Guilty As Charged David F. Ford, et al / Hardcover / Published 1997 |
Five years in he writing. Details how marijuana is the world’s least harmful medicine and high. Based on authoritative documents, news clippings and personal stories. Includes tales of the viciousness of US marijuana policy. |
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| Our Right to Drugs : The Case for a Free Market by Thomas Szasz Paperback – 199 pages Reprint edition (April 1996) Price: $14.36 |
Reasoned and passionate treatise, in which Szasz denounces both the prohibitionists and the so-called legalizers- “paternalistic prohibitionists” whose agenda is to transfer control of drugs to the medical system. Szasz dissects a cast of antidrug crusaders (Nancy Reagan, Father Bruce Szasz also analyzes legalization proponents (Lester Grinspoon, Ethan This book is well written, the arguments are clear and concise, and |
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| Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered (Drug Policy Classics Reprints Series Number 1) By Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar |
Two of the world’s leading experts on drug use provide the general reader with a comprehensive and accessible survey of psychedelic drugs and the scientific and intellectual issues they raise. The authors review the chemistry of psychedelics, their effects, and the history of human experience with the drugs, as well as assessing their potential value. “An exceptionally well-balanced scientific discussion of every aspect |
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| Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda; The Birth of Patriarchy and the Drug War by Dan Russell Paperback – 357 pages 1 edition (November 1998) Price: $24.95 |
Herbal magic, real pharmaco-shamanism, is at the core of all matriarchal cultures. The Goddess does not separate from her herbal magic, from her invention of medicine. The central sacrament of all Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures known is an inebriative herb, a plant totem, which became metaphoric of the communal epiphany. These herbs, herbal concoctions and herbal metaphors are at the heart of all mythologies. The Drug War, in America, didn’t begin with Nixon and the demonized “I had to write in appreciation of the invaluable contribution you’ve Compares to “The Chalice and the Blade” and “Food of the Gods,” two |
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| Smoke and Mirrors : The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure By Dan Baum |
A thoroughly researched attack on America’s war on drugs. Baum, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, calls American drug policy “as expensive, ineffective, delusional and destructive as government gets.” Tracing the development of U.S. drug policy from Nixon on, he skillfully tells a tale of demagoguery, cluelessness, and hysteria that is alternately amusing and depressing, alarming and infuriating. Baum details how “the drug exception to the Bill of Rights” was carved out, one piece at a time. The New York Times Book Review said “…colorful writing … trenchant observations … those seeking confirmation that the war on drugs is a bummer will relish the failures he (Baum) serves up.” |
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Why Marijuana Should Be Legal
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Ed Rosnthal and Steve Kubby explain how marijuana has been misinterpreted, and that the war on weed has harmed society more than pot itself ever could. Clear, concise with extensive notes. Includes Doonesbury cartoons. |
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Anti-Pot Books
Danger
: Marijuana (The Drug Awareness Library)
Marijuana
(Drug Library)
Marijuana (Drug Abuse Prevention Library)
(4 titles)
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Part of a series by the same author. Other titles include Danger Cocaine, Danger: Crack, Danger: Alcohol, Danger: Tobacco, and Danger: Inhalants |
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| Keep Off the Grass Gabriel G. Nahas, et al / Paperback / Published 1990 |
Over 10 years in print, this is the definitive anti-marijuana book from the man who has dedicated his life to misinforming the world about marijuana. Nahas was Reagan’s medical anti-pot point man, and now works for the French government. This is insidious stuff, treat it with caution. Forward by Jacques Cousteau. |
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Claims to document “the history and effects of marijuana, the long-term damage it causes, and how to get help.” |
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Hardcover Our Price: $17.95 Paperback Our Price: $5.56 |
Diatribe against marijuana. Sample quotes include: 1) “Marijuana is not considered physically addictive, but it might as well be.” 2) “Babies born to marijuana smokers are usually born smaller and may have distorted features.” 3) “Many people think that marijuana will help them to relax. Because the senses are changed, the mind thinks it is relaxed. But it is not.” |
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