Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs - Softcover

James P. Gray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566398606 ISBN 13: 9781566398602

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2001

Synopsis

A California Superior Court judge attacks the War on Drugs, describing the harm it has caused and laying out the other options--ranging from education and drug treatment to different strategies for taking the profit out of drug-dealing--in a book that includes testimonies by 40 other judges. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.

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From the Publisher:

A devastating indictment of the War on Drugs

From the Inside Flap:

"As provocative and topical as the film Traffic, here's a scathing jeremiad against the war on drugs, notable both for the author's position and for the sustained anger of its argument." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"However harmful the ingestion of drugs are to their users, the attempt to prohibit drugs has made matters far worse, threatening our basic rights to life, liberty and property. That is Judge Gray's thesis in this important book and he cites overwhelming evidence to support it. His proposals to improve the situation do not go as far as I would like, but they are all feasible and in the right direction. If adopted, they would produce a major improvement." —Milton Friedman

"The war on drugs cannot be a war on discussion of this problem. We can fight drug use and abuse and still explore viable options. Judge Gray illuminates options and in the process will promote necessary discussion of them." —George P. Shultz

"It's all here! A stinging indictment of today's drug strategies and a rallying cry around new strategies for tomorrow." —Gary E. Johnson, Governor of New Mexico

"It has been said that in public policy development we must distinguish between ideas that sound good and good ideas that are sound. In this book, Judge Gray provides sound ideas for a more effective national drug control policy. He recognizes that the War on Drugs needs new thinking for this new century." —Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Mayor of the City of Baltimore

"Judge Gray's thorough and scholarly work, based as it is on his personal experience, should help considerably to improve our impossible drug laws. [His] book drives a stake through the heart of the failed War on Drugs and gives us options to hope for in the battles to come" —Walter Cronkite

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1566398606
• ISBN 13: 9781566398602
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320