KILL THE DRUG TRADE: Ending the war on drugs in a System of Toleration, Counseling and Control: A System to Prevent Access by Minors, Reduce Addiction and Crime, and End the Harms of Prison Terms

AT LAST A WAY FORWARD to a freer, healthier, safer system that would accomplish what the war on drugs, with its perverse incentives and consequences, could never do.Revealed inside is a system to KILL THE DRUG TRADE, control drugs to prevent access by the young, and greatly diminish addiction, overdosing, and drug crime. The key is the toleration of adult use of drugs safely manufactured and dispensed in a controlled and regulated and information rich program. Whether you are a user,one who strongly opposes drug use or just want to see a better drug policy, you will find helpful and encouraging information in the pages of this book. If you are an addict, here is a system that would help you deal with that illness in an effective and dignified way. The reader may believe that drug use is immoral. I argue that what is really morally repugnant is the inhumanity of imprisoning drug users; that what is morally incongruous is a policy that fosters police corruption; and that what is morally reprehensible are laws that foster a profitable market in drugs which makes them pervasively available to children. The system proposed is economically, socially and scientifically sound. This book is for the general reader as well as for officials, policy makers and politicians who can act.