"Drug legalization is gaining converts and respectability."
-Newsweek"A superb book-the best of its kind!"
-Roy A. Childs, Jr.
More and more voices are calling for alternatives to the drug war, and David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, has gathered the ideas of 27 journalists, politicians, and scholars in this seminal collection of essays on ending the new prohibition.
"Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets," writes Baltimore mayor Kurt L. Schmoke. Twentieth-century Netherlands and 19th-century America (where drugs were not prohibited) are evidence that legalization would not significantly increase drug use, according to Princeton University professor Ethan A. Nadelmann.
In early 1990 polls showed that 30 percent of Americans favored drug legalization-up from 10 percent in 1988. The popular movement to end prohibition is in large part due to these essays, many of which first appeared in the Washington Post the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Economist, the New Republic, and Newsweek.
David Boaz has written for the New York Times the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune. He is the editor of Left, Right and Babyboom: America's New Politics; Assessing the Reagan Years; and an American Vision: Policies for the '90's (with Edward H. Crane).
This book contains the papers presented at a Cato Institute conference on June 2, 1989.
1990/148 pp./$8.00 paper ISBN: 0-932790-77-1
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