Legalising Drugs: Debates and Dilemmas
- ISBN-10
- 1847423752
- ISBN-13
- 9781847423757
- Category
- Drug control
- Pages
- 157
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Author
- Philip Bean
Description
Regularly there are calls to legalise currently illegal drugs. Legalisers argue that the problem is prohibition and that legalisation would solve this problem. This book looks at the implications of the arguments for and against legalisation.
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