Rethinking Drug Laws by Toby Seddon - 9780192846525

Rethinking Drug LawsTheory, History, Politics\nAuthor(s): Toby Seddon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780192846525, 978-0192846525\nSynopsis\nDrugs are pervasive in our everyday lives across cultures around the world. At the same time, they present one of the thorniest problems of twenty-first century policy, connected with concerns about crime, security, and public health. The global prohibition system, established a century ago, is widely seen to be failing and over the last decade alternative approaches have started to proliferate in some regions of the world, notably the Americas. Rethinking Drug Laws presents a radical intellectual reappraisal of how the international drug control system works, where it came from, and the possibilities for alternative futures. \nDrawing on an innovative interdisciplinary approach, the book develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for understanding how drug co?