NCJ Number
127351
Journal
Journal of Drug Issues Volume: 20 Issue: 4 Dated: (Fall 1990) Pages: 515-533
Date Published
1990
Length
19 pages
Annotation
Despite years of obvious failure, the United States government is tragically expanding its War on Drugs; but there are peaceful compromises that can limit this hopeless conflagration. Four basic principles are proposed, as well as a number of more specific possibilities.
Abstract
The basic principles are these: (1) recognize the futility of the very concept of a war on drugs; (2) medicalize marijuana and heroin to ease the suffering caused by cancer, glaucoma, and other serious diseases; (3) experiment with various forms of decriminalization or legalization of recreational drugs, the wounds already created by the drug war; and, at the same time, ameliorate the very problems that the drug war has unsuccessfully attempted to solve. 20 references (Author abstract)