Saying Yes

In Defense of Drug Use

By: Jacob Sullum

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Paperback | 1 May 2004

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340 Pages

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Jacob Sullum goes beyond debate on legalization or the proper way to win the "war on drugs", to the heart of a social and individual defence 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, such an approach rejects the idea that there is something inherently wrong with using chemicals to alter one's mood or mind. 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. Writing in a lively and provocative style that earned him critical acclaim for his previous book, Sullum contrasts drug use as it is described by politicians and propagandists with drug use as it is experienced by the silent majority of users. The lives they lead challenge a central premise of the war on drugs - the idea that certain substances have the power to compel immoral behaviour.

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"Beautifully lucid and relentlessly logical." "Jacob Sullum dismantles the antidrug messages." --The New Yorker"A welcome departure from the choreographed war on drugs." --The Washington Post "Jacob Sullum dismantles the antidrug messages." The New Yorker"A welcome departure from the choreographed war on drugs." The Washington Post" "Jacob Sullum dismantles the antidrug messages." The New Yorker"A welcome departure from the choreographed war on drugs." The Washington Post"

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