Commentary Legalization of Drugs: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come: COMMENTARY COMMENTARY Proposed Changes in Regulation of Currently Legal Drugs Proposed Changes is Currently Illegal Drugs COMMENTARY COMMENTARY COMMENTARY THE INCOMPLETE CONTENT OF DRUG LEGALIZATION PROPOSALS SOME PUBLIC HEALTH AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG USE DRUGS, STREET CRIME, AND THE ENSLAVEMENT THEORY OF ADDICTION SOME COST/BENEFIT CONSIDERATIONS OF LEGALIZATION LEGALIZATION IN THE LIGHT OF CURRENT DRUG TRENDS LEGALIZATION AND UNDERCLASS POPULATION CONTROL LEGALIZATION AND PUBLIC OP

The five articles in this volume are uneven. The article by Gettman is at least short, but it is full of unfounded assumptions and leaps in logic that defy logic. The article by Trebach is primarily a rehash of old arguments against existing policies and a new listing of his proposals to change the system. The article by Inciardi and McBride is the only article that is, in the scholarly sense of the term, a paper. It sets forth their assumptions as well as the assumptions of those who advocate legalization, it reviews a rather wide range of evidence, and it reaches conclusions. In fact, the...