tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13638234.post6234203267670941057..comments2023-10-31T08:05:38.800-04:00Comments on Sterling on Justice & Drugs: Mark Kleiman's Drugs and Drug PolicyEric E. Sterlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09061193531254728800noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13638234.post-67437989424814277932011-09-30T21:36:00.927-04:002011-09-30T21:36:00.927-04:00How does it compare to the Consumer Union book “Li...How does it compare to the Consumer Union book “Licit and Illicit Drugs?” (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Consumers-Narcotics-Stimulants-Depressants-Hallucinogens/dp/0316107174/ref=as_li_wdgt_js_ex?&linkCode=wsw&tag=leedfu-20" rel="nofollow">Amazon.com</a>, <a href="http://www.DrugLibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm" rel="nofollow">DrugLibrary.org</a>)<br /><br />How do the concluding recommendations compare?<br />• <a href="http://www.DrugLibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/CU68.html" rel="nofollow">Chapter 68 - Learning from past mistakes: six caveats</a><br />• <a href="http://www.DrugLibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/CU69.html" rel="nofollow">Chapter 69 - Policy Issues and Recommendations</a><br /><br /><br />I mean, it seems like the more I read about the issues surrounding drug policy reform, the more I just hear/read about how the same stuff (or remarkably similar) is being repeated, but repeatedly ignored.<br /><br />I have a book referenced in <i>Licit and Illicit Drugs</i>, it's by Robert S. DeRopp and titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Mind-Robert-S-DeRopp/dp/B0007DK71M/ref=as_li_wdgt_js_ex?&linkCode=wsw&tag=leedfu-20" rel="nofollow">Drugs and the Mind</a>, copyright 1957, he's pretty thorough but not as the Consumer Union/Brecher book <i>Licit and Illicit Drugs</i>. DeRopp's approach is not quite exclusively from a public policy approach, more from a medical approach, but he is emphatic in the need to not mistreat or drive opiate addicts to the black market, and that there are many who are lawyers, doctors, etc… i.e. otherwise respectable people who either want help (vs. prison) or are "managing quite fine thank you, mind your own business." This seems to be what I've gleaned from scanning the extensive Part 1 section in the Consumer Union Report. (That is the collection of chapters I've not poured over.)<br /><br />I am still working my way through the Consumer Union Report, having read the chapters that most interested me a few years ago, but putting off the others.<br /><br />Since you've been in this for a while I can only imagine that you have read it, and more thoroughly that I currently have. So I'm still left wondering if I would learn something new, something major, something subtle, or if <i>Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know</i> is mostly a 2011 version.<br /><br />TIAChristMotForbudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17470401758267964354noreply@blogger.com