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By: Joel MillereBook Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: Thomas Nelson
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The war against drugs was supposed to make America better, right? It failed. Not only does the drug war fail to keep Americans from using drugs, but its crackdown tactics also produce bigger problems than it promises to solve. In this fearlessly audacious book, Joel Miller shows that drug prohibition creates tremendous amounts of crime and corruption, helps finance anti-American terrorists, makes a joke out of U.S. border security, chips away at constitutional liberties, militarizes law enforcement, and jails hundreds of thousands of Americans. And for what? A bigger, more intrusive government that cares less and less about individual rights. Told in a bold, uncompromising style, Miller's book reveals the true and terrible nature of the war on drugs and also, just as importantly, informs readers about what they can do to kick the drug-war habit.
"Miller nails it," says Larry Elder, host of ABC Radio's nationally syndicated Larry Elder Show and best-selling author. "He powerfully and persuasively articulates the folly, the harm and the unconstitutionality of our government's War against Drugs." And says Judge Andrew P. Napolitano of Fox News, "If you are interested in our freedoms or fearful of the government destroying human lives and wasting tax dollars on another American Prohibition, read this book and send a copy to every lawmaker and judge you know."
If you want to understand the drug problem in America, you first need to know how the government is making it worse. Bad Trip is the place to start.
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| Title of eBook: Bad Trip | |
| Release Date: 06-02-2004 | |
| Publisher: Thomas Nelson |
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Bad Trip
Chapter One
CRACK VIALS AND VIOLENCEProhibition doesn't lessen crime; it creates it.
Because of tragedies like the killing of Maisha Hubbard, crime and drugs are closely linked in the minds of most Americans. The question is the nature of the link: Do drugs themselves cause crime, or are other factors at play?
Drug warriors often see dope as "criminogenic," by which they mean that it spawns lawbreaking by its very use. Prohibitionists have long exploited the perceived link to crime and social upheaval with this claim and have scare-pitched their schemes to ban drugs and other intoxicants with horrifying images and knuckle-whitening news copy. America's own history makes this clear; just look at the debate over alcohol Prohibition in the early 1900s.
When Sen. Morris Sheppard introduced a draft of the Eighteenth Amendment to ban booze, he labeled it "a narcotic poison, destructive and degenerating to the human organism," saying that it "undermin[es] the public morals" and "produces widespread crime." One pamphlet published by the Anti-Saloon League claimed that bars produced "eighty percent of the criminals in this country." How it came up with that statistic is beyond me, but the threat was accessible to all: "The saloon is responsible for more vice, degradation, sorrow, misery, heartaches, and deaths than any other cause tolerated by Government."
This type of rhetoric has traveled far on thick shoe leather, arriving with little wear into the modern debate on drugs.
Fingering Dope
"Let's say it's 1960, and the devil has just appointed a co
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