
Human Rights and Drug Control
This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally – to change the way in which we think about drug control issues.
The prohibitionist approach towards tackling the ‘drugs problem’ is not working. The laws and mentality that see drugs as the problem and tries to fight them, makes the ‘drugs problem’ worse. While the law is the best-placed mechanism to reg...
This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally – to change the way in which we think about drug control issues.
The prohibitionist approach towards tackling the ‘drugs problem’ is not working. The laws and mentality that see drugs as the problem and tries to fight them, makes the ‘drugs problem’ worse. While the law is the best-placed mechanism to reg...