ABSTRACT
Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America’s "War on Drugs" – both in tax spending and in human terms. Is it possible that US drug policies are helping to proliferate, not prevent, a multitude of social ills including: homicide, property crime, the spread of AIDS, the contamination of drugs, the erosion of civil liberties, the punishment of thousands of non-violent people, the corruption of public officials, and the spending of billions of tax dollars in an attempt to prevent certain drugs from entering the country? In this controversial new book, award-winning economist Arthur Benavie analyzes the research findings and argues that an end to the war on drugs, much as we ended alcohol prohibition, would yield enormous international benefits, destroy dangerous and illegal drug cartels, and allow the American government to refocus its attention on public well-being.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |27 pages
Background
part |54 pages
Damage from the Drug War
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
chapter |8 pages
Crime
chapter |13 pages
Public Health
chapter |11 pages
Civil Liberties
chapter |5 pages
Social Cohesion
chapter |11 pages
Your Tax Dollars at Work
part |26 pages
The Federal Government's Case for the Drug War
chapter |3 pages
The Perception of the Drug Czars
chapter |5 pages
The Czars Defend the Drug War
chapter |8 pages
The White House Versus the Scientists on Marijuana Dangers
chapter |8 pages
The Czars Versus the Scientists on Cocaine and Heroin
part |22 pages
Beyond the Drug War
