One or the Other

Letting people struggling with drug abuse run themselves into a decrepit state with no social provisions or adequate forms of drug treatment is a tragic mistake. So too is trying to revive a drug prohibitionism that only ever works at the cost of extendin

One of the more pernicious features of the American love/hate affair with psychoactive drugs is the rigidly schizoid frame that structures much drug discourse. For one side, drugs are somewhere between “miracle cures” and “things that we’ve made way too big a deal of,” and thus they should be decriminalized and/or legalized. For the other, they are a te…