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Off the Street: Legalizing Drugs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781459734975)
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xAn 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.
Author: W. a. Bogart
ISBN-10: 1459734971
ISBN-13: 9781459734975
Publisher: J. Patrick Boyer Book
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2016
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.60d
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.
Author: W. a. Bogart
ISBN-10: 1459734971
ISBN-13: 9781459734975
Publisher: J. Patrick Boyer Book
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2016
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.60d
By W. a. Bogart
xW.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.
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