Drug Legalization : For and Against Book

	About the Contributors
	Foreword
	Introduction
	The Background to the Debate	1
1	Questions to Consider	11
	Legalizing Drugs: A Dangerous Idea	13
2	Introductory Arguments	17
	The Case for Legalization	19
	Against the Legalization of Drugs	27
3	A Classic Correspondence: The Economist versus the 'Drug Czar'	47
	An Open Letter to Bill Bennett	49
	A Response to Milton Friedman	53
	Bennett's "Public Policy Disaster" Is Already Here	57
4	Law Enforcement Responses	61
	Pro-Legalization Arguments Reviewed and Rejected	63
	The Drug Problem: Is There an Answer?	77
5	Prohibition Comparisons	89
	We're Losing the Drug War Because Prohibition Never Works	91
	Actually, Prohibition Was a Success	95
6	Legal and Philosophical Arguments: Is there a Right to Use Drugs?	99
	The Zone of Privacy and the Right to Use Drugs: A Jurisprudential Critique	101
	Drugs: Getting a Fix on the Problem and the Solution	123
	The Legalization of Drugs: Why Prolong the Inevitable?	157
	Statement of Steven Wisotsky Before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control	181
7	Official Responses: A Mayor and a 'Czar'	213
	Decriminalizing Drugs: It Just Might Work - And Nothing Else Does	215
	Mopping up After the Legalizers: What the 'Intellectual' Chorus Fails to Tell you	221
8	The Scope and Severity of Addiction: Two Scientists' Divergent Views	229
	The Opium of the People: Crack in Perspective	231
	The Decline of Drugged Nations	247
9	Scapegoats, Cycles, and Society: The Views of Two Psychiatrists	253
	A Plea for the Cessation of the Longest War in the Twentieth Century - The War on Drugs	255
	Testimony of David F. Musto for the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control	269
10	The Journalists: A 'Conservative' and a 'Liberal' View	277
	Drug Talk Across the Way	279
	Don't Legalize Drugs: The Costs Are Still Too High	283
11	Half-Measures? Some Proposals between the Extremes	291
	Should Drugs Be Legalized? The Perils at the Extremes	293
	Let Koop Do It: A Prescription for the Drug War	297
	Tough Choices: The Practical Politics of Drug Policy Reform	309
	Select Bibliography	321
	Index	325