Drug Legalization For and Against

Should drugs be legalized? This collection gives both sides of the argument, with 24 selected articles by 23 well-known participants in the great debate.

All the relevant issues are covered, including: comparisons with legal drugs like alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine; law enforcement problems, addiction rates; moral dilemmas, and the results of practical experience with Prohibition and other anti-drug policies.

About the Contributors

ix

Foreword

xvii

Linus Pauling

Introduction

xxi

Hugh Downs

The Background to the Debate

1

(10)

Questions to Consider

11

(6)

Legalizing Drugs: A Dangerous Idea

13

(4)

Charles B. Rangel

Introductory Arguments

17

(30)

The Case for Legalization

19

(8)

Ethan A. Nadelmann

Against the Legalization of Drugs

27

(20)

James Q. Wilson

A Classic Correspondence: The Economist versus the `Drug Czar'

47

(14)

An Open Letter to Bill Bennett

49

(4)

Milton Friedman

A Response to Milton Friedman

53

(4)

William J. Bennett

Bennett's ``Public Policy Disaster'' is Already Here

57

(4)

Milton Friedman

Law Enforcement Responses

61

(28)

Pro-Legalization Arguments Reviewed and Rejected

63

(14)

Edward J. Tully

Marguerite A. Bennett

The Drug Problem: Is There An Answer?

77

(12)

Merrill A. Smith

Prohibition Comparisons

89

(10)

We're Losing the Drug War Because Prohibition Never Works

91

(4)

Hodding Carter III

Actually, Prohibition was a Success

95

(4)

Mark H. Moore

Legal and Philosophical Arguments: Is there a Right to Use Drugs?

99

(114)

The Zone of Privacy and the Right to Use Drugs: A Jurisprudential Critique

101

(22)

John Lawrence Hill

Drugs: Getting a Fix on the Problem and the Solution

123

(34)

Mark H. Moore

The Legalization of Drugs: Why Prolong the Inevitable?

157

(24)

Todd Austin Brenner

Statement of Steven Wisotsky Before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control

181

(32)

Steven Wisotsky

Official Responses: A Mayor and a `Czar'

213

(16)

Decriminalizing Drugs: It Just Might Work---And Nothing Else Does

215

(6)

Kurt L. Schmoke

Mopping Up After the Legalizers: What the `Intellectual' Chorus Fails to Tell You

221

(8)

William J. Bennett

The Scope and Severity of Addiction: Two Scientists' Divergent Views

229

(24)

The Opium of the People: Crack in Perspective

231

(16)

Michael S. Gazzaniga

The Decline of Drugged Nations

247

(6)

Gabriel G. Nahas

Scapegoats, Cycles, and Society: The Views of Two Psychiatrists

253

(24)

A Plea for the Cessation of the Longest War in the Twentieth Century---The War on Drugs

255

(14)

Thomas S. Szasz

Testimony of David F. Musto for the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control

269

(8)

David F. Musto

The Journalists: A `Conservative' and a `Liberal' View

277

(14)

Drug Talk Across the Way

279

(4)

William F. Buckley Jr.

Don't Legalize Drugs: The Costs are Still Too High

283

(8)

Morton M. Kondracke

Half-Measures? Some Proposals between the Extremes

291

(30)

Should Drugs be Legalized? The Perils at the Extremes

293

(4)

Daryl Frazell

Let Koop Do It: A Prescription for the Drug War

297

(12)

Taylor Branch

Tough Choices: The Practical Politics of Drug Policy Reform

309

(12)

Arnold S. Trebach

Select Bibliography

321

(4)

Index

325

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