Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs 2nd Edition by Judge James Gray 9781439907993 1439907994

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ISBN 10: 1439907994

ISBN 13: 9781439907993

Author: Judge James P. Gray

Our drug prohibition policy is hopeless, just as Prohibition, our alcohol prohibition policy, was before it. Today there are more drugs in our communities and at lower prices and higher strengths than ever before. We have built large numbers of prisons, but they are overflowing with non-violent drug offenders. The huge profits made from drug sales are corrupting people and institutions here and abroad. And far from being protected by our drug prohibition policy, our children are being recruited by it to a lifestyle of drug use and drug selling. Judge Gray’s book drives a stake through the heart of the War on Drugs. After documenting the wide-ranging harms caused by this failed policy, Judge Gray also gives us hope. We have viable options. The author evaluates these options, ranging from education and drug treatment to different strategies for taking the profit out of drug-dealing. Many officials will not say publicly what they acknowledge privately about the failure of the War on Drugs. Politicians especially are afraid of not appearing “tough on drugs.” But Judge Gray’s conclusions as a veteran trial judge and former federal prosecutor are reinforced by the testimonies of more than forty other judges nationwide.

Table of contents:

Part I: Introduction

Part II: Our Drug Laws Have Failed

1. Past and Present

2. Increased Harm to Communities

3. Erosion of Protections of the Bill of Rights: Where’s Paul Revere?

4. Increased Harm to Drug Users

5. Increased Harm for the Future

Part III: Options

6. Increased Zero Tolerance

7. Education

8. Drug Treatment

9. Deprofitization of Drugs

10. Federalism, Not Federalization

Part IV: What We Can Do About It

Appendix A: Resolution

Appendix B: Government Commission Reports and Other Public Inquiries

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