Saying Yes

Saying Yes - Paperback

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Saying Yes - Paperback

Saying Yes - Paperback

by Jacob Sullum
$27.00
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Book Overview

The nationally syndicated columnist and Reason magazine editor presents a damning portrait of how politicized government agencies, antidrug activists, and a naïve national media have exaggerated the public's fears of the harmful effects of recreational drugs.

Jacob Sullum goes beyond the debate on legalization or the proper way to win the "war on drugs," to the heart of a social and individual defense of using drugs. Saying Yes argues that the all-or-nothing thinking that has long dominated discussions of illegal drug use should give way to a wiser, subtler approach exemplified by the tradition of moderate drinking. Saying Yes further contends that the conventional understanding of addiction, portraying it as a kind of chemical slavery in which the user's values and wishes do not matter, is also fundamentally misleading.
ISBN9781585423187
Author Jacob Sullum
PublisherPenguin Adult Hc/Tr
GenreNews & politics, Education, and Self-help & personal development
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2004
LanguageENG- English
Pages340
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Nonfiction Political Science Self-Help Social Science

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Saying Yes - Paperback

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About Jacob Sullum

Jacob Sullum is the author of For Your Own Good The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health. He is a senior editor at Reason and a syndicated columnist with Creator's Syndicate. Sullum's weekly column appears in newspapers across the country. His work has also appeared in Cigar Aficionado, National Review, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The New York Times.

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