Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use - Couverture rigide

Sullum, Jacob

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1585422274 ISBN 13 : 9781585422272

Editeur : Jeremy P Tarcher, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Sullum Jacob

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jacob Sullum goes beyond debate on legalisation or the proper way to win the war on drugs to the heart of a social and individual defence of using drugs. Drug use as it is described by propagandists is dramatically different from drug use as it is experienced by the silent majority of users: the decent respectable people who despite their politically incorrect choice of intoxicants earn a living and meet their responsibilities. SAYING YES argues that the all-or-nothing thinking that has long dominated discussions of illegal drug use should give way to a wiser subtler approach. Exemplified by the tradition of moderate drinking such an approach rejects the idea that there is something inherently wrong with using chemicals to alter one's mood or mind. SAYING YES further contends that the conventional understanding of addiction portraying it as a kind of chemical slavery in which the user's values and wishes do not matter is also fundamentally misleading. Writing in a lively and provocative style that earned him critical acclaim for his previous book Sullum contrasts drug use as it is described by politicians and propagandists with drug use as it is experienced by the silent majority of users. The lives they lead challenge a central premise of the war on drugs: the idea that certain substances have the power to compel immoral behaviour.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jacob Sullum is the author of For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health. He is a senior editor at Reason and a syndicated columnist with Creator's Syndicate. Sullum's weekly column appears in newspapers across the country. His work has also appeared in Cigar Aficionado, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The New York Times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jeremy P Tarcher
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1585422274
• ISBN 13: 9781585422272
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible