HISTORY OF DRUG POLICY
Jack Levinson, CUNY
Prevention Justice Seminar
October 18, 2004
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Dr Jack Levinson
Jack Levinson is a sociologist who currently teaches at CUNY. He is interested in drug use and drug control, and the culture of health and self-improvement. He worked in AIDS services for eight years.
Recommended Readings
Drug War and Criminal Justice
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I. ‘Myths and Facts About the Rockefeller Drug Laws’.
http://www.droptherock.org/MYTHS.htm
II. ‘What are the Rockefeller Drug Laws?’
www.droptherock.org/rockefeller_drug_laws.htm
III. ‘How do Drug Laws Damage Individuals, Communities, Families and the State’
www.droptherock.org/rockefeller_damage.htm
IV. ‘What is the Current Political Situation in the Legislature on the subject of Drug Laws?’
www.droptherock.org/politics.htm
V. ‘Effective Alternatives to the Drug Laws: What works Best for Non-violent drug-offenders’. The Correctional Association of New York.
www.droptherock.org/effective.htm
VI. The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs by Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine, 1972: Chapter 1: ‘19th Century America – a ‘Dope Fiend’s Paradise’
www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cu1.html
VII. Are The Drug Laws Constitutional? A Historical Perspective, from ‘Our Right To Drugs’ by Thomas Szasz, Praeger Publishers, NY (1992):
www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/szasz1.htm
VIII. Excerpts from Smoke and Mirrors by Dan Baum, 1996
www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/baum1.htm
IX. ‘The Race to Incarcerate’ (1999), Mauer, M. The New Press: New York.
