Table of Contents:
  • Opium, cocaine, and marijuana in American history / David F. Musto
  • The national drug-control strategy / Office of National Drug-Control Policy
  • Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson
  • Should drugs be legalized? / William Bennett
  • Drug legalization : asking for trouble / Robert L. DuPont and Ronald L. Goldfarb
  • Legalizing drugs would sidestep the moral issue / Rushworth M. Kidder
  • Legalizing drugs : a "dangerous idea" / Charles B. Rangel
  • Just say "no!" to proposal to make drug use legal / Joseph R. Biden Jr.
  • Mistakes of the legalizers / Charles Krauthammer
  • Some among us would seek to surrender / Daryl F. Gates
  • Should we legalize drugs? : history answers ... no / David T. Courtwright
  • Taking drugs seriously / John Kaplan
  • Don't legalize drugs / Morton M. Kondracke
  • Federal foolishness and marijuana / Jerome P. Kassirer
  • Reefer madness : the Federal response to California's Medical-Marijuana Law / George J. Annas
  • Medics in the war on drugs / Thomas S. Szasz
  • The war on drugs as a metaphor in American culture / Dwight B. Heath
  • Curing the drug-law addiction : the harmful side effects of legal prohibition / Randy E. Barnett
  • Drugs as property : the right we rejected / Thomas S. Szasz
  • There's no justice in the war on drugs / Milton Friedman
  • Defining "addiction" / Bruce K. Alexander and Anton R.F. Schweighofer
  • Drugs and free will / Jeffrey A. Schaler
  • Vietnam veterans three years after Vietnam : how our study changed our view of heroin / Lee N. Robins [and others]
  • Rat Park chronicle / Bruce Alexander, Patricia Hadaway, and Robert Coambs
  • Cocaine and addictive liability / Patricia G. Erickson and Bruce K. Alexander
  • Cocaine careers, control and consequences : results from a Canadian study / Patricia G. Erickson and Timothy R. Weber
  • Addiction and criminal responsibility / Herbert Fingarette
  • The First Amendment and drug alcohol treatment programs : to what extent may coerced treatment programs attempt to alter beliefs relating to ultimate concerns and self-concept? / Ellen Luff
  • Thinking about drinking : the power of self-fulfilling prophecies / Jeffrey A. Schaler.