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What Everyone Needs to Know
Oxford University Press
June 2012
On Sale: June 14, 2012
266 pages ISBN: 0199913730 EAN: 9780199913732 Kindle: B008C80VYW Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Should marijuana be legalized? The latest Gallup poll
reports that exactly half of Americans say "yes"; opinion
couldn't be more evenly divided.
Marijuana is
forbidden by international treaties and by national and
local laws across the globe. But those laws are under
challenge in several countries. In the U.S., there is no
short-term prospect for changes in federal law, but sixteen
states allow medical use and recent initiatives to legalize
production and non-medical use garnered more than 40%
support in four states. California's Proposition 19 nearly
passed in 2010, and multiple states are expected to consider
similar measures in the years to come.
The debate
and media coverage surrounding Proposition 19 reflected
profound confusion, both about the current state of the
world and about the likely effects of changes in the law.
In addition, not all supporters of "legalization" agree on
what it is they want to legalize: Just using marijuana?
Growing it? Selling it? Advertising it? If sales are to be
legal, what regulations and taxes should apply? Different
forms of legalization might have very different
results.
Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone
Needs to Know will provide readers with a non-partisan
primer about the topic, covering everything from the risks
and benefits of using marijuana, to describing the current
laws around the drug in the U.S. and abroad. The authors
discuss the likely costs and benefits of legalization at the
state and national levels and walk readers through the
"middle ground" of policy options between prohibition and
commercialized production. The authors also consider how
marijuana legalization could personally impact parents,
heavy users, medical users, drug traffickers, and employers.
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