Jacob Sullum goes beyond the debate on legalization or the proper way to win the “war on drugs,” to the heart of a social and individual defense of using drugs. He believes that the conventional understanding of addiction, portrayed as a kind of chemical slavery in which the user’s values and wishes do not matter, is also fundamentally misleading.

How does someone defend heroin use? Is alcohol more addictive than opioids? What are the expectations that surround marijuana use? What can and can’t make drug use dangerous? Does marijuana actually make people violent? What is the benefit of legalizing some illegal drugs?

Further Reading:

Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use, written by Jacob Sullum

Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, written by Alex Berenson

For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health, written by Jacob Sullum

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Is the DEA Trippin’? (with Rick Doblin), Free Thoughts Podcast

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, Free Thoughts Podcast

How Drug Prohibition Caused the Opioid Crisis, Free Thoughts Podcast

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