-Caveat Lector- http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=afterprohibition.html&cart_id= After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century Edited by Timothy Lynch More than 10 years ago, federal officials boldly claimed that they would create a 'drug-free America by 1995.' To reach that objective, Congress spent billions on police, prosecutors, drug courts, and prisons. Despite millions of arrests and countless seizures, America is not drug free. Illegal drugs are as readily available today as ever before. Drug prohibition has proven to be a costly failure. Like alcohol prohibition, drug prohibition has created more problems than it has solved. The drug war has destroyed the lives of inner-city residents, corrupted law enforcement, and distorted our foreign policy. Yet drug prohibition is still seen as a viable strategy by our political leaders. Paradoxically, alternative drug policies—such as legalization—fall outside of the parameters of serious debate in our nation's capital. No one maintains that drug legalization would be a panacea. There is no question that drug abuse would continue to be a problem even in the face of legalization. But drug prohibition is a blunderbuss approach that treats Americans with very little respect. It treats them like children. It is time to deal with adult drug use in a more open, honest, and mature manner. The drug war has been given a chance to work, but it has failed miserably. Timothy Lynch is associate director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies and a graduate of Marquette University School of Law. He is a member of the Wisconsin and District of Columbia bars and writes frequently on legal issues. "You cannot read this book without recognizing the social tragedy that has resulted from the attempt to prohibit people from ingesting an arbitrary list of substances designated 'illegal drugs.' . . . Not since the collapse of the attempt to prohibit the ingestion of alcohol has our liberty been in such danger as it now is from the misnamed 'war on drugs.'" -Milton Friedman "The nation is crying for an honest weighing of the dollar and societal costs of the drug war against its limited accomplishments in reducing the admittedly serious problem of drug abuse. This volume addresses the many ways in which America is paying for its drug warÐmany billions of dollars spent, encroachment on individual constitutional rights, distortion and corruption of policing, and incarceration of over 400,000 people in a futile attempt to keep the drug market from responding to domestic demand." -Alfred Blumstein University Professor, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University Contributors Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Steven Duke is professor of law at Yale University. Gary Johnson is governor of New Mexico. David Klinger is professor of criminology at the University of Missouri. David B. Kopel is director of research at the Independence Institute. Michael Levine is a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency. Daniel Lungren is a former attorney general of California. Timothy Lynch is director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice. Joseph McNamara is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Roger Pilon is vice president for legal affairs at the Cato Institute. Daniel Polsby is professor of law at George Mason University. Julie Stewart is president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums. 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