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On drugs
By Lenson, David
- ISBN
- 978-0-81662-710-3
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 1995
Unlike Thomas Szasz, who argues forcefully for the legalization of drugs in Our Right to Drugs (Praeger, 1992), Lenson tackles this subject by meditating on the national consumerist paradigm, the way the war on drugs closed avenues for heterogeneity, the lack of a vocabulary to describe changes in a user's consciousness, the senselessness of talking about "drugs" indiscriminately, and the differences among the users, the drugs, and the effects of psychedelic...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
