Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs

James P. Gray

ISBN 10: 1566398606 / ISBN 13: 9781566398602

Edité par Temple University Press (edition First Edition), 2001

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• Titre: Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs
• Éditeur: Temple University Press (edition First Edition)
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1566398606
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781566398602
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 \u0022tough on drugs.\u0022 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.

À propos de l?auteur

James P. Gray is Judge of the Superior Court in Orange County in Southern California. He has served as former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and as a criminal defense attorney as a member of the JAG Corps in the Navy. In 1998 he made an unsuccessful run for Congress as a Republican against Bob Dornan. Judge Gray has discussed issues of drug policy on more than one hundred radio and TV shows and numerous drug forums around the country.