 |
Add to My Group
| April 10, 2009 Permalink Philly IMC: US Drug Policy Has Gone to Pot Quicklink submitted by Hans Bennett (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
|
| The time seems ripe to change America's attitudes towards the criminalization of drugs, and the behemoth prison system which grows from current drug policy and feeds on society. The failed war on drugs has created a 1200% increase in drug incarceration rates since 1980 (from 41,000 people incarcerated to over 500,000), and has disproportionately hurt African Americans. |
Read the rest of the story HERE:
$65.00
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Greenwood Press
by Peter H Smith
$22.95
Lowest New Price $35.00
Number of pages: 366
Publisher: Westview Press
by Peter H. Smith
$34.95
Number of pages:
Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub
by F. Manski
$59.95
Lowest New Price $49.95
Number of pages: 424
Publisher: National Academies Press
|
Tags for This QuickLink:
Policy (1608) America (922) Drugs (445) Drug Policy-Culture-Laws (156) Drugs Marijuana Hemp (115) Drugs Decriminalization (85) Drug Trafficing (82) Policy Analysis (37) Drug Sentencing (34) Drug Policy Racist (26) |
| No comments |
Want to post your own comment on this Quicklink? 
|
||||
|
||||||||||||||
Must Read (0) 
Well Said (0) 
News (0) 
Touching (0) 
Funny (0) 
Supported (0) 
Interesting (0) 
Inspiring (0) 
Valuable (0) Tell a Friend:
|
Copyright © 2002-2009, OpEdNews |
