The war against drugs was supposed to make America better, but it failed. Not only has prohibition been unable to keep Americans from using narcotics, its political, economic, and legal side effects have exacerbated the problem. Chapter by chapter, Bad Trip explains how the drug war:
- increases crime on the street and law-enforcement corruption;
- finances anti-American terrorists;
- undermines U.S. border security, while empowering dangerous drug cartels;
- cancels constitutional liberties, especially the fourth and fifth amendments;
- militarizes law enforcement; and
- jails hundreds of thousands of nonviolent Americans and other low-level offenders.
And for what? The answer is a bigger, more intrusive government that cares less and less about individual rights while creating bigger problems than those it claims to solve.
Bad Trip reveals the true and terrible nature of America’s war on drugs. If you want to understand the drug problem in America, you first need to know how the government is making it worse.
A devastating examination of government anti-drug policies.
Reason
Miller nails it. He powerfully and persuasively articulates the folly, the harm and the un-Constitutionality of our government’s war against drugs.
Larry Elder, ABC Radio
A powerful case against the drug war.
Washington Times
Miller’s well-researched, bitingly written account . . . delivers a formidable challenge to the reigning prohibitionist orthodoxy.
Publishers Weekly
Miller marshals data and anecdotes to make a powerful case that the war on drugs has not made us safe. On the contrary, it’s created a vast criminal culture in which disputes are settled with violence, and it’s empowered and financed not only urban gangs, but also international terrorists. It’s also turned local cops into dangerous, commando-style paramilitary forces and given police and the courts license to ride roughshod over property and privacy rights . . . He makes a convincing case that the war on drugs is the worst public policy in America today.
Sacramento News & Review
Drug abuse is bad. But Joel Miller demonstrates that the war on drugs is far worse . . . As Miller so ably proves, the government’s drug war is the ultimate bad trip.
Doug Bandow, former Special Assistant to Pres. Ronald Reagan
Seldom has an accounting of the war on drugs’ real-world costs been so meticulous and conveniently available all in one place.
Paul Armentano, LewRockwell.com
Miller shows in convincing detail why the war on drugs is a war on our liberties.
Jacob Sullum, author, Saying Yes
Read this book and send a copy to every lawmaker and judge you know.
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Fox News
[Miller’s] powerful book should give even the most fervent drug warrior second thoughts.
American Compass Book Club
A must-read for any concerned citizen.
John W. Whitehead, president, The Rutherford Institute
If ideological overdose caused our War on Drugs, Bad Trip is the stomach pump. Buy a bunch and start handing it out.
Laissez Faire Books