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Title: Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs by James P. Gray ISBN: 1-56639-860-6 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: 02 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Triumphant, debate-ending tour-de-force
Comment: Judge Gray says what all opponents of the drug war have been saying all along, and he lends his succinct style and honorable status to the fight against drug prohibition. The arguments are well-known and do not bear repeating here, and it suffices to say that the book is written in a straight-forward, professional manner, explaining in detail each point of the argument and anticipating most semi-intelligent responses.
Our Drug War is a miserable failure. Judge Gray has recognized that and is stepping up to the plate; the rest of us should follow suit. This book is excellent material to bolster your arguments against drug prohibition, arguments that will be the basis for decriminalization of many controlled substances, hopefully within the next decade. Judge Gray's book is filled with undeniable logic and speaks to both our empathy and rationality.
For those of you not yet convinced by what you feel are shaky arguments against drug statutes, read this book and see the light, so to speak. The entire DEA should read this book and start looking for jobs that are not wasteful and immoral. We can only hope there will be no demand for such job positions in the near future.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's Time to End the Insanity of the Failed Drug War
Comment: Judge James Gray has served in several capacities, including prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge as well as his recent career move as an author and possible political candidate. Through his work in the legal system, he has witnessed the corruption, the injustice, and the overall insanity of the War on Drugs. He wrote this book as an educational piece and as a call to political action.
Gray presents dozens of quotes from individuals in government, in law, and in other walks of life who have observed the failures of the drug war and know that the laws against drug use are actually more harmful than the drugs themselves. Gray shows how the drug laws have been used to justify expansion of government power and erosion of civil liberties. He shows how drug laws corrupt law enforcement officials and often lead to early paroling of violent criminals in order to make room in prison cells for non- violent drug offenders. Most politicians refuse to touch this issue (with a few exceptions, like former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson) out of fear. They worry how the ignorant, misinformed public will respond so they just push the issue under the table and hope it doesn't resurface during election time.
One of the most indicting facts about the pro- drug war radicals is the fact that they usually refuse to debate anti- drug war advocates in a public forum. Death- loving extremists, like the evil former drug czar Barry McCaffrey, refuse to debate these issues. This intimidation of taking on an anti- drug war individual speaks volumes. If the pro- drug war forces really felt their message was srong, they would have no problem having a debate and, in fact, would likely welcome one. But Gray points out that he is usually shunned when he approaches one of these drug war supporters with an invitation for an open debate.
Gray presents many angles of the drug issue in this book, and then he follows his words with a defined plan of action. He doesn't necessarily push his own views as the only ones that are valid. Rather, he presents the facts and lets the reader decide, confident in the fact that most anyone who knows the facts will likely take the side against continuing the insane war on drugs.
Gray wrote this book as a wake up call. The crazy war on drugs has caused endless amounts of human tragedy while making many people (drug kingpins, law enforcement, lawyers, etc.) very rich. It's no wonder that these people want to keep the war going. It has nothing to do with morals or justice. They don't want to see an end to the flow of funds into their already oversized wallets. But something has to be done. If the failed war on drugs is not ended soon, Gray fears that more and more civil liberties and privacy rights will be lost and the United Stated will continue to send a larger and larger portion of its population to serve time in jail, which will do absolutely nothing to curtail drug use and will result in more and more expansions of government power and control. His book is outspoken and gets right to the heart of the matter, and I highly recommend reading this book to anyone who has even the slightest interest in law, politics, and justice
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting, Well-Written, and Lively
Comment: "Judge James P. Gray, a California trial court judge since 1983, has come to believe that the war on drugs is an abject failure both on its own terms (stopping illegal drug use) and with regard to its impact on society. As an experienced trial judge and former federal prosecutor who briefly held a record for the largest drug prosecution in the Central District of California, Judge Gray is in a position to speak with authority about what is wrong with the war on drugs. He does so in compelling language. For example, he opens the book by promising readers that drug policy with someday change, and when it does, "we will look back n astonishment that we allowed our former policy to persist for so long, much as we look back now at slavery, or Jim Crow laws, or the days when women were prohibited from voting" (p. 5)."
"In sum, Judge Gray's book is an interesting, well-written, and lively account of the costs of drug prohibition. It should not be the only book someone reads on the subject, however, although it is a reasonable introduction to the general subject. Those deeply interested in the subject with want to read it mainly for the marvelous quotes from judges and for Judge Gray's own comments on the evolution of his understanding."
-From "The Independent Review," Summer 2002
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Title: Ending the War on Drugs by Dirk Chase Eldredge ISBN: 1882593383 Publisher: Bridge Works Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Drug Crazy : How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out by Mike Gray ISBN: 0415926475 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Drug War Heresies : Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places by Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter, Charles Jr. Wolf ISBN: 052179997X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs by Mike Gray ISBN: 1560254327 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Smoke and Mirrors: The War On Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum ISBN: 0316084468 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 05 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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