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NORML report on marijuana prohibition
Source: NORML
Country: United States
E-mail: norml@norml.org

An in-depth report on the history and politics of marijuana prohibition, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the "Marijuana Tax Act of 1937."

The sociology of prohibition
Source: Pipes.org
Author: Charles Whitebread
Country: United States

This 1995 speech to the California Judges Association annual conference gives a handy history of American prohibition measures against all kinds of "evil" substances. (1995)

A society of suspects: The war on drugs and civil liberties
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Steven Wisotsky
Country: United States

"This country's Founders would be disappointed with what we have done to their legacy of liberty: The War on Drugs, by its very nature, is a war on the Bill of Rights." (10/2/92)

Forbidden fruit: How prohibition increases the harm it tries to reduce
Source: Independence Institute
Author: Dwight Filley
Country: United States

This wide-ranging study examines the general policy of prohibiting disfavored activities and the resulting unintended consequences of defiance, crime and corruption. (1998)

The fatal temptation: Drug prohibition and the fear of autonomy
Source: Libmansworld
Author: Dr. Thomas Szasz
Country: United States

Why ban drugs? "Anti-psychiatrist" Szasz looks at the real (and to some, frightening) implications of personal autonomy. (1992)

Drug prohibition in the United States: Costs, consequences and alternatives
Source: The Lindesmith Center
Author: Ethan A. Nadelmann
Country: United States

The War on Drugs is full of lost opportunities, unexpected consequences and just bad effects. (1989)

Commonsense drug policy
Source: The Lindesmith Center/Foreign Affairs
Author: Ethan A. Nadelmann
Country: United States

Nadelmann starts with the assumption that draconian laws won't make drugs disappear, then sets out to construct a system that reduces the secondary ill-effects of crime and misery. (1998)

The case for legalization
Source: The Lindesmith Center/Public Interest
Author: Ethan A. Nadelmann
Country: United States

Nadelmann lays out the failures of drug prohibition and argues that legalization would greatly reduce social ills. (1988)

Just say no to DARE
Source: Salon
Country: United States

"Leaders of the nation's largest drug prevention program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, announced on Thursday that they were changing DARE's approach, admitting that the vastly expensive program appears to be ineffective. Indeed, research has indicated that DARE may actually have contributed to greater drug use by high school students." (02/16/01)

Misinformation, culture wars and prejudice
Source: Common Sense for Drug Policy
Country: United States

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of "Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding," Common Sense for Drug Policy prepared a report entitled "Nixon Tapes Show Roots of Marijuana Prohibition: Misinformation, Culture Wars and Prejudice". PDF file, requires Acrobat Reader (03/02)

Report confirms significant racial factor in drug arrests
Source: NORML
Author: John Gettman
Country: United States

From the introduction: "Blacks are arrested more frequently for drug offenses than whites. This disparity is consistent over time and holds up regardless of the region of the country, the nature of the drug offense considered and levels of drug use by each racial group..." Part Two of NORML study on U.S. marijuana arrests.

NORML study shows throwing dollars at drugs is dismal failure
Source: NORML
Country: United States

Increased funding of the war on drugs has only made it worse, according to a new study released by NORML. Despite a 68% increase in anti-drug expeditures, from sources open and hidden, drug use has more than doubled in the last decade.

NORML study trashes drug war spending
Source: NORML
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

In an attempt to debunk the claims of drug warriors that drug use in America correlates with anti-drug spending, NORML compared the two data-points and found, not surprisingly, that the two are at best unrelated and may even be inversely proportional.

Policing for profit: The drug war's hidden agenda
Source: FEAR
Author: Eric Blumenson and Eva Nilsen
Country: United States

An analysis of forfeiture laws and and the federal law enforcement aid program, and their consequences in the war on drugs.

The secret of world-wide drug prohibition
Source: Hereinstead
Author: Harry G. Levine
Country: United States

"'What percentage of countries in the world have drug prohibition? Is it 100 percent, 75 percent, 50 percent or 25 percent?' I recently asked many people I know to guess the answer to this question. Most people... guess 25 or 50 percent. More suspicious people sometimes guess 75 percent. The correct answer is 100 percent, but nobody guesses that. (10/01)

Addicted to the drug war
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Ilana Mercer
Country: United States

"The brutal punishing of adults for the substances they ought to be able to ingest, inhale, or inject at their own peril is based on a parochial and moribund prior restraint argument." (12/28/01)

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