Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815603337)

In Our Right to Drugs, Szasz shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the US government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I the free market in drugs was but a dim memory. Instead of dwelling on the familiar impracticality and unfairness of drug laws, Szasz demonstrates the deleterious effects of prescription laws, which place people under lifelong medical supervision. The result is that most Americans today prefer a coercive and corrupt command drug economy to a free market in drugs.

Author: Thomas Szasz
ISBN-10: 0815603339
ISBN-13: 9780815603337
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1996
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.56d