Download e-book for kindle: A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use by Rob Lovering

By Rob Lovering

ISBN-10: 1137548762

ISBN-13: 9781137548764

ISBN-10: 1349552496

ISBN-13: 9781349552498

Why does American legislation let the leisure use of a few medications, corresponding to alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine, yet no longer others, corresponding to marijuana, cocaine, and heroin? the reply lies now not easily within the damage using those medications may reason, yet within the perceived morality--or lack thereof--of their leisure use. regardless of powerful rhetoric from ethical critics of leisure drug use, even if, it's strangely tricky to figure the explanations they've got for deeming the leisure use of (some) medications morally unsuitable. during this e-book, Rob Lovering lays out and dissects quite a few arguments for the immorality of utilizing marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and different medicines recreationally. He contends that, almost always, those arguments don't be successful. Lovering's booklet represents one of many first works to systematically current, research, and critique arguments for the ethical wrongness of leisure drug use. Given this, in addition to the recognition of the morality-based security of the us' drug legislation, this e-book is a vital and well timed contribution to the controversy at the leisure use of drugs.

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