The "War on Drugs" has been raging for twenty years without resolution. This
work attempts to provide a compromise position between the prohibitionists and the
legalizers that preserves the integrity of both positions. This compromise position is
necessary to resolve issues of racism, deprivation of civil rights, and other injustices
inherent in the policy, on which I elaborate. I show a moral compromise with integrity is
not possible without a full elaboration of the moral underpinnings of both sides to the
conflict, which is provided. I extend Martin Benjamin's theory of moral compromise
with integrity, as found in Splitting the Difference, to the public policy arena. I offer a
compromise solution to the drug policy question, and answer theoretical objections,
including establishing criteria of integrity-preservation, which I show are met by my
compromise position.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/4219 |
| Date | 30 October 2006 |
| Creators | Crispino, Azzurra |
| Contributors | Harris, C. Edwin |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | 1223189 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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