What's been missing the past 30-years that prevented voters and leaders from hearing or acting upon the Gierach call -and the Civil Society call-for legalized, controlled and regulated drugs and drug markets? Why the public repulsion from the Silver Bullet Solution to the many-tentacled, drug-prohibition monster?
Have you lost a child to fentanyl or heroin overdose?Are you worried about losing a loved one to drug addiction or drug accident?Is your neighborhood threatened by violent crime and gangs?Is it safe for your child to get to school, go to the park, or play outside?Do you live in a safe, suburban neighborhood but yet feel like you need a firearm to be "safe" in your own home, car, or traveling on a big-city expressway?Do you believe the World War on Drugs (62 years old) has been a dismal failure and ongoing drug seizures by the ton are evidence of that failure?Regardless of color, does it anger you that Blacks, Latinos, and poor Whites are sitting in American prisons for drug crimes at disparate rates?Did you know that drug prohibition causes needless bullet-holes and that "bullet-hole healthcare" greatly contributes to an unaffordable healthcare system-whether called Obamacare, Trumpcare or Single-Payer?This book offers answers to these challenges, and it broadcasts the idea that there is something "YOU CAN DO" about it. You can help the new public opinion evolve.
About the Author :
James E. Gierach is a retired Chicago-area attorney, former Cook County prosecutor, and drug policy reformer.
Review :
“James Gierach’s book calls for much needed reforms. Drug prohibition has brought irreparable damage to millions.”
“Gierach is a prophet. His views are decades ahead of today’s drug laws influenced by UN Conventions and the US-led World War on Drugs.”
“United Nations’ recreational drug-prohibition serves a lost World War on Drugs. Gierach’s book challenges world leaders to abandon drug-war intolerance.”
“Thanks to Jim’s enormous contribution, new international drug policy reforms are coming that will guide better national policies in these matters.”
“This book is important because drug policy is a choice. Prohibition is a choice. Therefore, undoing prohibition is also a choice, and it is a choice we must make with urgency.”
“Gierach recognizes that drug war subverts the policing mission.”
“Gierach doggedly and eloquently makes the case that drug prohibition itself is the common denominator driving or aggravating a dozen global crises — among them crime, corruption, and even many of the harms associated with drug use.”
“Jim Gierach is a lonely voice decrying the immoral World War on Drugs and advocating a Silver Bullet Solution. An important read.”
“Jim Gierach knows the failed and futile WarOnDrugs produces soaring deaths, disease, crime, violence and corruption. It continues because it works as a political strategy.”
