Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A Guide to the Drugs Laws of the States
Author: A Guide to the Drug Laws of the States
Author: Guidelines Manual
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Controlled Substances
Author: Alexander T. ShulginPublisher: Ronin Publishing (CA)
ISBN: 9780914171508
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
President's Commission on Model State Drug Laws: Crimes code
Author: United States. President's Commission on Model State Drug LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Drugs and Drug Policy
Author: Mark A.R. KleimanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831386
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance insurgency and terrorism. Neither a drug-free world nor a world of free drugs seems to be on offer, leaving citizens and officials to face the age-old problem: What are we going to do about drugs? In Drugs and Drug Policy, three noted authorities survey the subject with exceptional clarity, in this addition to the acclaimed series, What Everyone Needs to Know®. They begin, by defining "drugs," examining how they work in the brain, discussing the nature of addiction, and exploring the damage they do to users. The book moves on to policy, answering questions about legalization, the role of criminal prohibitions, and the relative legal tolerance for alcohol and tobacco. The authors then dissect the illicit trade, from street dealers to the flow of money to the effect of catching kingpins, and show the precise nature of the relationship between drugs and crime. They examine treatment, both its effectiveness and the role of public policy, and discuss the beneficial effects of some abusable substances. Finally they move outward to look at the role of drugs in our foreign policy, their relationship to terrorism, and the ugly politics that surround the issue. Crisp, clear, and comprehensive, this is a handy and up-to-date overview of one of the most pressing topics in today's world. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
President's Commission on Model State Drug Laws
Author: United States. President's Commission on Model State Drug LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
President's Commission on Model State Drug Laws
Author: United States. President's Commission on Model State Drug LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Helena Star
Author: Stewart Patrick RileyPublisher: Robert Reed Publishers
ISBN: 9781944297824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This is the epic tale of the motor vessel Helena Star. On April 17, 1978, the U.S. Coast Guard seized the aging freighter 140 miles off Washington State's coast with its hold loaded with 37 tons of marijuana--the west coast's largest pot bust--worth an estimated street value of $74 million. Drug agents later seized the sleek Joli, a 61-foot sailboat, for its suspected role in the case. A past winner of the prestigious Victoria to Maui sailboat race, the Joli had been purchased from William Niemi, Jr., former president of Eddie Bauer, by champion freestyle skier Mike Lund. The attorney for the captain of the Helena Star provides an insider's unvarnished account of the case from the trenches. The freighter and the conspirators involved were in the news from its seizure in 1978 to its death by sinking in 2013. This drug bust and the ensuing events comprise a true saga about the inner workings of a Colombian-American drug cartel, smuggling on a massive scale, money laundering, the capture of fugitives in Bolivia, suspicious deaths, the lives of high-profile individuals, and courtroom battles in Seattle and San Francisco.
Illegal Drugs
Author: Paul GahlingerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440650241
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Does Ecstasy cause brain damage? Why is crack more addictive than cocaine? What questions regarding drugs are legal to ask in a job interview? When does marijuana possession carry a greater prison sentence than murder? Illegal Drugs is the first comprehensive reference to offer timely, pertinent information on every drug currently prohibited by law in the United States. It includes their histories, chemical properties and effects, medical uses and recreational abuses, and associated health problems, as well as addiction and treatment information. Additional survey chapters discuss general and historical information on illegal drug use, the effect of drugs on the brain, the war on drugs, drugs in the workplace, the economy and culture of illegal drugs, and information on thirty-three psychoactive drugs that are legal in the United States, from caffeine, alcohol and tobacco to betel nuts and kava kava.