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The New Prohibition: Voices of Dissent Challenge the Drug War (Paperback)

by Jesse Ventura (Foreword), Bill Masters (Editor)
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"[A] wide range of observers... provocative and... unexpected dissenters joining the chorus of voices critical of the drug war." -- Westword, Alan Prendergast, May 20, 2004

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Prohibition failed once... now it is failing us again.

Provocative essays from peace officers, public officials, scholars, and policy experts analyze our drug laws -- and find they have failed us. Today's war on drugs funds terrorists, undermines justice, corrupts business, and destroys people's lives. Edited by Sheriff Bill Masters, these collected essays -- these voices of dissent -- challenge the core assumptions of what one author calls "our domestic Vietnam," the new prohibition of drugs.

Along with a foreword by Governor Jesse Ventura, The New Prohibition features 21 essays. The writers consist of two retired undercover narcotics officers, a U.S. district judge, a Congressman, a retired mayor who ran a needle exchange program, a lawyer who helped write America's drug laws, and numerous policy leaders from all points along the political spectrum.

Contributors address the relationship between the drug war and terrorism; the impact of drug polic