drug legalization

Presents both sides of the debate over the legalization of drugs, and includes bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations.

Examines the issue and controversies related to the debate over the legalization of drugs, discussing police and government efforts to end the illegal drug trade, and including arguments both for and against the legalization of drugs.

When medical marijuana was legalized in Colorado in 2009 it set off a tsunami activity that was viewed by opposing camps as either Nirvana or the Apocalypse. The author traveled from California's famed Humbolt County to the first-annual Medical Marijuana Education Expo to Oklahoma (where a man was sentenced to 93 years for growing marijuana to treat chronic arthritis), and along the way unearthed ignorance about pot's centuries-old therapeutic value.

Law professors Douglas Husak and Peter de Marneffe provide arguments for and against the decriminalization and legalization of drugs.

Compares the effects of marijuana use against the effects of marijuana laws, examining the issue from constitutional, criminal, economic, health, industrial, medical, national security, and sociological perspectives, and arguing that the drug should be legalized.

Recounts the age-old debate of whether drug usage should be legalized or not.