Saying Yes
by Jacob Sullum · first published 2003
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"The contradiction between what the government says and what drug users know has become increasingly difficult to maintain in recent years. During the Clinton Administration, the government continued to arrest people, at a rate of about 700,000 a year, for doing (or helping others do) what the president had joked about on MTV. "Drugs will destroy you," George W. Bush told audiences during his campaign for the 2000 Republican nomination, all the while presenting a living refutation of that claim. Even Attorney General John Ashcroft, who abstains from alcohol and tobacco on religious grounds, ex
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If you'd like a deeper look into this issue across a wider variety of substances, I highly recommend the book "Saying Yes": http://www.amazon.com/Saying-Yes-Defense-Drug-Use/dp/1585422...
on “H - The surprising truth about heroin and addiction” ↗OK, so first, you bring up three points, which if they were sound, are good ones. However: 1. Has it? Jacob Sullum (for whom I have a great deal of respect) addressed this fairly squarely in Saying Yes. That's over a decade old now. He also addressed this as one of his main points during his appearance on C-SPAN[0]. Are you saying that you have research to correct his work? Have you presented this…
on “Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years” ↗…addicts said they’d tried heroin at least once since arriving back home. As my Reason colleague Jacob Sullum has documented, such take-it-or-leave-it findings are common in drug research. In his 2004 book Saying Yes and other places, he’s detailed work in which researchers find a surprising range among heroin users, including a study that concluded, “It seems possible for young people from a number of different backgrounds,…
on “Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue” ↗