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Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs (Practical ethics series) (Paperback)

by Douglas Husak (Author)
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  • Paperback: 210 pages
  • Publisher: Verso Books (31 July 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1859843204
  • ISBN-13: 978-1859843208
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 15 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29,275 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"In his remarkable book, philosopher and legal scholar Doug Husak brings the drug debate to a new level. Avoiding hyperbole, he reasons along lines that should appeal to the majority of just, sensible human beings. That he does this so well is perhaps the more remarkable because, justifiably so, he is outraged at the incarceration of, and threats to, Americans whose entire identified criminal behaviour is using a substance that other people dislike." ... Stanton Peele, author of Love and Addiction and Recovery: The Meaning of Addiction

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There are currently nearly half a million drug offenders incarcerated in US jails, more than the entire EU prison population. Added to the financial consequences of current drug policy there is the enormous human cost. Police corruption, organized crime, contempt for the law and drugs made dangerous because they are illegal and thus not subject to proper controls are other consequences of current drug policies. Politicians from all sides of the political spectrum are now beginning to ask: is it worth it? In arguing that criminalization is unjust, Douglas Husak explodes many of the myths that surround drug use. In some years, more than half of high school seniors take drugs, yet the US is not overrun with drug-crazed addicts. Horror stories of the dangers of drug use abound, but the truth is more prosaic; although recreational drugs are sometimes bad for users, there are between 80 and 90 million US citizens who have used illicit drugs without ill effects.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading, whichever side of the debate you're on, 16 April 2009
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This review is from: Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs (Practical ethics series) (Hardcover)
Unlike many authors supporting drug law reform, Husak says little about the observable negative effects of our current policy of prohibition. Instead, his focus is on justice - whether it is just for the criminal law to impose punishment on people who use illegal drugs (and not impose punishment on those who use legal drugs) for recreational purposes. As such, it is not a charter setting out a system for a legally regulated market - whether or not it should be legal to produce and sell drugs is not the issue; merely whether users should be punished. The book warns about the dangers of generalising from worst case scenarios, or of using anecdotes to endorse any position. Husak notes that where the state wishes to impose punishment on its citizens, the burden of proof should fall upon the state to show that those citizens that they deserve punishment - in this case, that those who wish to criminalize drug users should have to show why that is justified, and he deconstructs several of what he identifies as the best arguments for criminalization. He also observes that when these arguments have been dealt with, prohibitionists usually fall back on the proposition that drug use should be punished because it is morally wrong, but that no good argument has yet been made for why it is morally wrong - indeed, such arguments often turn out to be based on (usually unspoken) religious convictions, which should not be used in a secular society to send people to jail.
This book is a short, easy-to-read exposition of the moral case for decriminalizing recreational drug use, and I would heartily reccommend it to anyone with an interest in this topic.
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