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By Joel Miller
This tough, uncompromising book takes a look at how America's controversial war on drugs is punishing the innocent and rewarding the guilty, and what citizens can do to stop our country's drug war abuse.
Americans thrill at reports of big drug busts--jailing junkies and cuffing smugglers--but the sad truth is that the war on drugs is doing little to stop drug abuse, but doing much to tear away at our lives and liberties. In this fearlessly audacious book, Joel Miller shows how drug prohibition directly creates crime, corrupts cops, increases government invasiveness, empowers the state to steal private property, militarizes police, limits doctors in treating their patients, and fosters a perpetual delusion that victory is within reach. The fact is: it's a war where only the corrupt win, and the innocent lose rights, liberties, and sometimes lives. Told in a crisp, anecdotal, though thoroughly-researched style, this book also informs readers on what the nation can do to kick the drug-war habit.
Reviews
"If you are interested in our freedoms or fearful of the government destroying human lives and wasting tax dollars on another American Prohibition, read this book and send a copy to every lawmaker and judge you know." ~JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO Fox News senior judicial analyst
"Miller nails it. He powerfully and persuasively articulates the folly, the harm and the un-Constitutionality of our government's War against Drugs." ~LARRY ELDER Host of ABC Radio's nationally syndicated Larry Elder Show and best-selling author of "The Ten Things You Can't Say in America" and "Showdown"
"Drug abuse is bad. But Joel Miller demonstrates that the War on Drugs is far worse. The government is financing terrorism and underwriting corruption even as it violates the freedom of Americans. Yet drug use continues unabated. As Miller so ably proves, the government's drug war is the ultimate bad trip." ~DOUG BANDOW Senior fellow at the Cato Institute, former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan
"It took guts to write Bad Trip. In clear and riveting language, and with irrefutable facts, Joel Miller explains why laws against drugs-just like laws against guns-help no one except criminals. Such laws enrich gangsters; corrupt politicians; criminalize honest citizens; and eat away at our Bill of Rights. Freedom-loving Americans should resist the War on Drugs as implacably as we defy the War on Guns." ~RICHARD POE Best-selling author of "The Seven Myths of Gun Control" and "Hillary's Secret War"
"The U.S. government is addicted to the drug war, and the power and pelf it reaps from it. But anyone who cares about freedom and justice can only be horrified. Thank goodness for Joel Miller and this important book. As he shows, we have to send the feds to rehab." ~LEW ROCKWELL Editor of LewRockwell.com, President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
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