Legalization of Drugs , livre ebook

pages

English

Ebooks

2011

Écrit par
D. Friedman Mark

Publié par
Capstone Global Library

Lire un extrait

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne En savoir plus

Découvre YouScribe et accède à tout notre catalogue !

Je m'inscris

Découvre YouScribe et accède à tout notre catalogue !

Je m'inscris

pages

English

Ebooks

2011

Lire un extrait

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne En savoir plus

Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

13 juillet 2011

EAN13

9781406236286

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

Accessible yet sophisticated book that covers the difficult issue of drug legalization. Can a case be made that it would reduce drug-related crime? Is it plausible that people would be safer if drugs were legal?

Voir

Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

13 juillet 2011

EAN13

9781406236286

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS

HOTTOPICS

LEGALIZATLIONEOFGDRAUGLSIZATION OF DRUGS

HOT TOPICS

LEGALIZATIONOF DRUGS

Mark Friedman

Raintree is an imprint of Capstone Global Library Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales having its registered office at 7 Pilgrim Street, London, EC4V 6LB – Registered company number: 6695582

Text © Capstone Global Library Limited 2012 First published in hardback in 2012 The moral rights of the proprietor have been asserted.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner, except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS (www.cla.co.uk). Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission should be addressed to the publisher.

Edited by Adam Miller, Andrew Farrow, and Jennifer Locke Designed by Clare Webber and Steven Mead Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library Ltd Picture research by Ruth Blair Production by Eirian Griffiths Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by Leo Paper Group Ltd

ISBN 978 1 406 22379 8 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Friedman, Mark D. Legalization of drugs. – (Hot topics) 178.8-dc22 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy pp.12bottom (© INTERFOTO),14right (Don Paulson),14left (SelectPhoto),15right (Janine Wiedel Photolibrary),17(Ian Miles-Flashpoint Pictures),22(Gary Calton),23(© Catchlight Visual Services),33(Yadid Levy),42(Lordprice Collection); Corbis pp.10(© Tomas Rodriguez), 12top (© Martin Meyer),25(© REUTERS/ Alejandro Bringas),26(© James Leynse),31(© John Spellman/Retna Ltd.),38(© Ted Soqui), 41(© Underwood & Underwood),49(© Richard Wright); Getty Images pp.5(Leon Neal/AFP), 15left (John Nordell/The Christian Science Monitor),19(JAVIER CASELLA/AFP),29(Taxi),47(ANDREW STUART/AFP); Shutterstock pp.7(© holbox),9(© Gregor Kervina).

Cover photograph of cannabis use reproduced with the permission of Science Photo Library (Ian Hooton).

We would like to thank Kristen Kowalkowski for her invaluable help in the preparation of this book.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders of any material reproduced in this book. Any omissions will be rectified in subsequent printings if notice is given to the publisher.

Disclaimer All the Internet addresses (URLs) given in this book were valid at the time of going to press. However, due to the dynamic nature of the Internet, some addresses may have changed, or sites may have changed or ceased to exist since publication. While the author andpublisher regret any inconvenience this may cause readers, no responsibility for any such changes can be accepted by either the author or the publisher.

cONTENTS

New legal highs..........................................................4

Drugs for performance, not pleasure .............12

The drug landscape ................................................14

Can we win the war on drugs? .........................16

Education: the best solution?............................26

Wave the white flag? ............................................. 32

Alcohol prohibition ................................................40

The move to make marijuana legal..................44

Individual liberties ..................................................46

You decide: who is the victim?............................50

Glossary........................................................................52

Further information................................................54

Index..............................................................................56

Some words are printed in bold,like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.

NEw LEGAL HIGHS

None of these words sound like they describe anything dangerous or deadly. They sound fun, exotic, and interesting. The word “ecstasy” means a state of pleasure. K2 is the name of the second-highest mountain in the world, a destination for the most daring mountain climbers. A genie is a fictional character with magical powers to make wishes come true for humans.

As names for products, these are perfectly chosen words. They grab your attention, they sound cool, and they are exciting. They could be brand names for sweets or video games, or roller coasters.

Yet each of these words, in fact, is the name of a drug. And each of these drugs started out as a legal substance that anyone could purchase. Eventually, they became illegal in different parts of the world. Governments realized that despite their innocent-sounding names, these products posed a health risk to people. So local and national governmentsbannedthe products, saying that a person caught selling or in possession of the product could go to prison.

This pattern has occurred for many generations: drugs that are seen as dangerous are made illegal. Today, after years of drug abuse and billions of pounds spent fighting drug use, many people say that certain drugs should be legalized. Some people even argue thatalldrugs should be legal.

Voir