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Edited by Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer. 369 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-44115-3.

A few months ago in the Journal, Lester Grinspoon and James Bakalar argued that our drug policies "require a war of annihilation against a wrongly chosen enemy" ("The War on Drugs -- A Peace Proposal." 1994;330:357-60). Confronting Drug Policy, a collection of essays most of which were first published in the Milbank Quarterly, attempts to address this proposition and asks whether our drug policies themselves are the problem. This book critically examines the data on the use and regulation of psychoactive substances, including the history of regulation in international law and its roots in alcohol prohibition; the social, demographic, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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