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A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Why does American law allow the recreational use of some drugs,
such as alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine, but not others, such as
marijuana, cocaine, and heroin? The answer lies not simply in the
harm the use of these drugs might cause, but in the perceived
morality-or lack thereof-of their recreational use. Despite strong
rhetoric from moral critics of recreational drug use, however, it
is surprisingly difficult to discern the reasons they have for
deeming the recreational use of (some) drugs morally wrong. In this
book, Rob Lovering lays out and dissects various arguments for the
immorality of using marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs
recreationally. He contends that, by and large, these arguments do
not succeed. Lovering's book represents one of the first works to
systematically present, analyze, and critique arguments for the
moral wrongness of recreational drug use. Given this, as well as
the popularity of the morality-based defense of the United States'
drug laws, this book is an important and timely contribution to the
debate on the recreational use of drugs.
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