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| Introduction |
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| Twenty-five Reasons: | ||
| 1. We Really Lost This War! |
6
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| 2. This War Kills Children! |
41
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| 3. Teen Gangs Are a Deadly Growth Industry |
60
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| 4. Devastating Impact on Women |
79
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| 5. Racism Worse Than Slavery |
95
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| 6. The Netherlands’ Spectacular Success |
106
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| 7. Treatment Is a Bargain — MDs, Not DAs |
118
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| 8. Harm Reduction Is the Answer |
140
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| 9. Huge Avoidable Increases in Contagious Diseases |
152
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| 10. The Truth — Drugs Are Rarely Deadly |
157
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| 11. Marijuana’s Miraculous Benefits |
198
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| 12. Murder, Overdoses, and AIDS Are More Deadly Than Drugs |
225
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| 13. Extreme Environmental Toxicity — National and International Poisons |
231
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| 14. Hemp, a Global Warming Powerhouse Wasted |
243
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| 15. Even Animals Get “High” |
251
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| 16. The Cancerous Prison-Industrial Complex |
257
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| 17. Economics — A Trillion Plus Squandered |
279
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| 18. Narco-Terrorism — We Fund It! |
293
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| 19. The Worst Corruption in the History of the United States |
300
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| 20. International Crime, Corruption, & Government Destabilization |
307
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| 21. Grave Judicial Concerns |
318
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| 22. Relentless Erosion of the Bill of Rights |
325
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| 23. Unintended Consequences — Everything Backfires! |
332
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| 24. Medical Groups, Judges, Churches, and Law-Enforcement Organizations Support Drug Reform |
345
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| 25. All 23 Independent Government Commissions Support Decriminalization; Reform Organizations & Internet Resource |
354
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| Conclusion |
372
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| Source Notes |
378
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| Bibliography |
402
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| Drug Legalization Petition |
405
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| Index |
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