Cannabinoid News: Thirteen Years of Maximizing Harm and the Dismal Future of Drug Prohibition, A New Blog Posting by Author and Activist Stephen Young
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) July 31, 2013 -- More than a decade of maximizing harm and the beginning of the end of the drug war is the focus of a new posting on the Bryan William Brickner blog by activist Stephen Young, author of Maximizing Harm: Losers and Winners in the Drug War (2000) and one of the many writers of The Cannabis Papers: A citizen’s guide to cannabinoids (2011).
Young’s 2000 book, subtitled Losers and Winners in the Drug War, suggested that policies supporting the prohibition of drugs made the problems surrounding drugs worse, not better.
“As anniversaries go, 13 usually isn’t considered a big one,” quipped Young, “and for the superstitious, it might even be a year to avoid celebrating. Maximizing Harm was published 13 years ago; since drug prohibition continues to result in consistent misfortune, what better time to glance back.”
“Unlike the year 2000,” Young continued, “there are now two states, Colorado and Washington, that have formally legalized cannabis consumption. Also, there are now 19 states – and soon to be 20 when my home state of Illinois joins the ranks – with medical cannabis laws, as opposed to only eight states with such laws 13 years ago.”
“Thirteen years ago,” Young noted, “I saw some paths away from the drug war, but it was hard to see how the broadest path would come from cannabis itself. In many ways, cannabis and cannabinoids are the antidotes to the drug war.”
Young’s article appears on the Bryan William Brickner blog, a collection of published works and press coverage and an ongoing resource for the political science of constitutional usurpation and the biological science of cannabinoids.
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