Drug War Deadlock The Policy Battle Continues

The dynamics of our drug policies in the United States are a complex puzzle to which there are no simplistic solutions. Drug War Deadlock presents a diverse collection of readings from scholarly journals, government reports, think tank studies, newspapers, and books that offer a comprehensive look at the drug debate.

Laura E. Huggins is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Huggins specializes in free market environmentalism, property rights, and population policy. She is primarily interested in the role of economic processes in shaping natural resource policy and in promoting market principles to a wide audience in order to help resolve environmental dilemmas. Hanna Skandera was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Foreword

ix

John Raisian

Introduction

xi

Laura E. Huggins

PART ONE: BACKGROUND

American Drug Policy: The Continuing Debate

3

(8)

James A. Inciardi

Drug Laws and Law Enforcement

11

(6)

Howard Abadinsky

Thirty Years of America's Drug War: A Chronology

17

(16)

PART TWO: FOUNDATION

Philosophical Underpinnings

33

(18)

Robert J. MacCoun

Peter Reuter

The American Ambivalence: Liberty vs. Utopia

51

(10)

Thomas Szasz

Hidden Paradigms of Morality in Debates about Drugs: Historical and Policy Shifts in British and American Drug Policies

61

(16)

John Jay Rouse

Bruce D. Johnson

PART THREE: PERSPECTIVES

Academic

There's No Justice in the War on Drugs

77

(4)

Milton Friedman

Don't Surrender: The drug war worked once. It can again

81

(4)

William J. Bennett

Flashback

An Open Letter to Bill Bennett

85

(3)

Milton Friedman

Should Drugs Be Legalized?

88

(7)

William J. Bennett

Media

Just Say No: Government's War on Drugs Fails

95

(6)

John Stossel

A War Worth Fighting

101

(2)

Lou Dobbs

Law Enforcement

The Drug War: The American Junkie

103

(9)

Joseph D. McNamara

Congressional Testimony in Opposition to Drug Legalization

112

(9)

Bruce D. Glasscock

PART FOUR: GETTING SPECIFIC

Legalization

Current Controversies: Drug Legalization

121

(5)

Scott Barbour

The Case for Legalisation: Time for a Puff of Sanity

126

(5)

Against the Legalization of Drugs

131

(20)

James Q. Wilson

Decriminalization

Alternative Perspectives on the Drug Policy Debate

151

(6)

Duane McBride

Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath

James A. Inciardi

The Decriminalization Alternative

157

(22)

Sam Staley

The Great Drug Policy Debate --- What Means This Thing Called Decriminalization?

179

(24)

Ronald Bayer

Harm Reduction

Should Harm Reduction Be Our Overall Goal in Fighting Drug Abuse?

203

(3)

Charles Levinthal

A New Direction for Drug Education: Harm Reduction

206

(5)

David F. Duncan

Has the War on Drugs Reduced Crime?

211

(3)

Robert E. Peterson

Snapshot

Reducing Harm: Treatment and Beyond

214

(5)

Drug Policy Alliance

PART FIVE: WHAT ABOUT MARIJUANA?

An End to Marijuana Prohibition: The Drive to Legalize Picks Up

219

(17)

Ethan A. Nadelmann

No Surrender: The Drug War Saves Lives

236

(5)

John P. Walters

Snapshot

Western States Back Medical Marijuana

241

(6)

PART SIX: A EUROPEAN OUTLOOK

Drug Intelligence Brief: The Changing Face of European Drug Policy

247

(11)

Europe's More Liberal Drug Policies Are Not the Right Model for America

258

(4)

Snapshot

Does Europe Do It Better?

262

(11)

Robert J. MacCoun

Peter Reuter

CONCLUSION

A Blueprint for Peace: Ending the War on Drugs

273

(13)

Ted Galen Carpenter

Compassionate Crusade

286

(7)

Asa Hutchinson

Index

293

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