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The case for legalizing drugs
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ISBN: 0275934594 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York [etc.] Praeger

How to legalize drugs
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ISBN: 0765701510 Year: 1998 Publisher: Northvale, N. J. London Jason Aronson

Drugs and rights
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ISBN: 0521417392 0521427274 1139172573 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This important book was the first serious work of philosophy to address the question: Do adults have a moral right to use drugs for recreational purposes? Many critics of the 'war on drugs' denounce law enforcement as counterproductive and ineffective. Douglas Husak argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the moral rights of adults who want to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against such use are incompatible with moral rights. This is not a polemical tract but a scrupulously argued work of philosophy that takes full account of all available data concerning drug use in the United States today. The author is careful to describe the properties a recreational drug would have to possess before the state would be justified in prohibiting it. Since criminal laws against the use of recreational drugs are justified neither by the harm users cause to themselves nor by the harm users cause to each other, Professor Husak concludes that such laws are, in almost all cases, unjustified.

Confronting the drug control establishment : Alfred Lindesmith as a public intellectual
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ISBN: 0585317976 9780585317977 0791443930 9780791443934 0791443949 9780791443941 1438408889 Year: 2000 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,

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"Confronting the Drug Control Establishment is a biography of Alfred R. Lindesmith and an intellectual history of his times. A sociologist at Indiana University, Lindesmith believed legal prohibition of addictive drugs was futile and wrote widely on the threat to democracy inherent in such a policy." "Throughout his life Lindesmith attempted to utilize his research for the creation of more rational and humane drug control laws. His consistent message was that the addict's self-concept is a central element in human addiction. Lindesmith felt that an overriding influence on an addict's self-concept is a fear of withdrawal, which keeps an addict from seeking treatment and becomes a key driving force in the drug problem."--BOOK JACKET.

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