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Legalizing drugs : the key to ending the war / Steve Rolles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rolles, Steve, author.
- Rolles Steve
- Series:
- No-nonsense guides (New Internationalist Publications (Firm))
- Nononsense
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug legalization.
- Narcotic laws.
- Drug control--Economic aspects.
- Drug control.
- Narcotics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (85 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : New Internationalist Publications, Ltd, 2017.
- Summary:
- We urgently need to legalize and regulate drugs this book explains why, and how to do it.
- Contents:
- Intro
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- About Transform Drug Policy Foundation
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. A brief history of the global 'war on drugs'
- Early laws against opium
- Prohibition of alcohol in the US
- The history of cannabis prohibition
- US prohibition goes global
- Then the 1960s happened...
- Nixon launches his war on drugs
- The end of the global drug-war consensus
- 2. Counting the costs of 50 years of drug war
- Chasing the illusion of 'a drug-free world'
- Why the war on drugs threatens public health
- Bringing high-risk drug use into prisons
- Wasting billions, undermining economies
- Banks and the illegal drug trade
- Undermining human rights
- Undermining peace and security
- Are there any benefits?
- 3. What would a post-drug-war world look like?
- Why the goal should be to reduce harm
- Regulation: the pragmatic middle-ground
- How to regulate
- How drugs would be accessed
- Five ways to regulate supply
- Institutions for regulating non-medical drug markets
- Addressing key concerns around legalization and regulation
- Will legalization mean more drug use?
- Are developing countries able to deal with the regulatory challenge?
- What will all the criminals do?
- 4. Drug-law reform in practice around the world
- Why decriminalization and legalization should not be confused
- High-level UN support
- Decriminalization in Portugal
- Cannabis legalization and regulation around the world
- Early trends in Colorado
- Uruguay: the first country to legalize cannabis
- Legal heroin?
- Switzerland's successful experiment
- Innovative approaches to other drugs
- 5. Obstacles to reform - and how to negotiate them
- Why has the war on drugs proved so resilient?
- Shifting the political cost-benefit analysis
- Finding champions.
- Telling human stories
- Anyone's Child
- The moment for change has arrived
- Resources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780264035
- 1780264038
- OCLC:
- 1124614493
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