Marijuana Legalization, Mark A.R. Kleiman
Marijuana Legalization, Mark A.R. Kleiman
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Marijuana Legalization
What Everyone Needs to Know®

Author: Mark A.R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Beau Kilmer

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins

Unabridged: 12 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/15/2023


Synopsis

Should we legalize marijuana? If we legalize, what in particular should be legal? Just possessing marijuana and growing your own? Selling and advertising? If selling becomes legal, who gets to sell? Corporations? Co-ops? The government? What regulations should apply? How high should taxes be? Different forms of legalization could bring very different results.

This second edition of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know® discusses what is happening with marijuana policy, describing both the risks and the benefits of using marijuana, without taking sides in the legalization debate. The book details the potential gains and losses from legalization, explores the "middle ground" options between prohibition and commercialized production, and considers the likely impacts of legal marijuana on occasional users, daily users, patients, parents, and employers—and even on drug traffickers.

About Mark A.R. Kleiman

Mark A. R. Kleiman is a professor of public policy and the director of the Crime Reduction and Justice Initiative at New York University's Marron Institute of Urban Management. He is a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council, and is a frequent guest expert in the media. He is the author of five books on drug and criminal justice policy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dale on June 05, 2014

I have yet to ever smoke marijuana so I don't know much about it. But I think it is crazy to waste so much money. This book was very informative about marijuana for me but would teach people who smoke as much as it taught me about the details of marijuana. Before reading this book, I was pro legaliza......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on December 16, 2013

This book was very well written from a research point of view. Instead of there being a bias leaning towards liberals or conservatives, the authors have managed to incorporate a large amount of statistics and factual events to come to reasonable conclusions. In addition to it being a very factual bo......more

Goodreads review by Dan on June 27, 2013

Professors Caulkins, Hawken, Kilmer and Kleinman present a very readable and thought-provoking analysis of marijuana laws, harm, addiction, enforcement, the legalization debate and other issues surrounding current marijuana policy in the United States. Not a liberal interpretation or a conservative......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel on March 06, 2019

Thorough and unbiased analysis of the current data with some weak arguments about legalization here and there, but not unbearable. It may be the one and only updated book, that deserves attention on this topic now. Unfortunately, there is a lot of unscientific literature, so be careful.......more

Goodreads review by Benjy on June 11, 2013

Extremely good survey of the established research and data around the issue without taking an opinion on what it implies for policy (the authors come from different places on this front).......more