W. A. Bogart

Off the Street (eBook, ePUB)

Legalizing Drugs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An unflinching analysis of one of the major issues of our time - the shift from criminalization to regulation of recreational drugs.

The "war on drugs" has failed. The cost of trying to control the production, sale, and use of recreational drugs through the criminal law is too high: unjust incarceration, illicit markets, tainted substances, exploited children, and an untaxed industry.

But there is an alternative.

The watchwords for governments controlling the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, junk food, and gambling are "permit but discourage." All are legal, but harmful consumption is decreased by targeted regulatory strategies.

That same approach should be adopted for drugs. Legalization and regulation can attack the underground economy, drive down excessive use, provide revenue for prevention, treatment, and counselling, and better protect children.

Off the Street: Legalizing Drugs calls for a thoughtful, national discussion of the legalization and regulation of recreational drugs - the "least bad" way forward.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781459734999
• Artikelnr.: 45221844

Autorenporträt

W.A. Bogart is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Windsor. He is the author/editor of seven books, including Regulating Obesity?: Government, Society, and Questions of Health. He blogs for the Huffington Post and is a frequent media commentator on the regulation of consumption. He lives in Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 
PART ONE: The End Is In Sight 
1. The War Will Be Over 
2. Regulating Drugs: Permit but Discourage 
PART TWO: Does Cannabis Stand Alone? 
3. Is Marijuana a Special Case? 
PART THREE: A Framework For Regulation 
Introduction
4. Who Should Regulate? 
5. Supply - Hard Choices 
6. The Best Hope - Suppressing Harmful Demand 
7. Legal - But Illegally Used: Prescription Drugs
CONCLUSION: "The Least Bad Policy"