Drugs and Rights
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 31 July 1992
- ISBN 9780521427272
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 229x152x18 mm
- Weight 430 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book was the first serious work to address the question whether adults have the right to use drugs for recreational purposes.
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This important book was the first serious work of philosophy to address the question: Do adults have a moral right to use drugs for recreational purposes? Many critics of the 'war on drugs' denounce law enforcement as counterproductive and ineffective. Douglas Husak argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the moral rights of adults who want to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against such use are incompatible with moral rights. This is not a polemical tract but a scrupulously argued work of philosophy that takes full account of all available data concerning drug use in the United States today. The author is careful to describe the properties a recreational drug would have to possess before the state would be justified in prohibiting it. Since criminal laws against the use of recreational drugs are justified neither by the harm users cause to themselves nor by the harm users cause to each other, Professor Husak concludes that such laws are, in almost all cases, unjustified.
"No one seriously interested in criminal justice in the United States can afford to ignore this book....Husak's book is certainly the best book by a philosopher on the right to drug use in recent years and will hopefully encourage philosophers and others to engage this issue with the kind of critical rigor it surely deserves." David A. J. Richards, Ethics
Table of Contents:
1. Drugs, drug use, and criminalization; 2. Drugs and harm to users; 3. Drugs and harm to others; 4. Restrictions on drug use.
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