{"product_id":"saying-yes-isbn-9781585423187","title":"Saying Yes","description":"The nationally syndicated columnist and \u003ci\u003eReason\u003c\/i\u003e magazine editor presents a damning portrait of how politicized government agencies, antidrug activists, and a naïve national media have exaggerated the public's fears of the harmful effects of recreational drugs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jacob Sullum goes beyond the debate on legalization or the proper way to win the \"war on drugs,\" to the heart of a social and individual defense of using drugs. Saying Yes argues that the all-or-nothing thinking that has long dominated discussions of illegal drug use should give way to a wiser, subtler approach exemplified by the tradition of moderate drinking. Saying Yes further contends that the conventional understanding of addiction, portraying it as a kind of chemical slavery in which the user's values and wishes do not matter, is also fundamentally misleading.\"Jacob Sullum dismantles the antidrug messages.\" —\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A welcome departure from the choreographed war on drugs.\" —\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJacob Sullum is the author of \u003ci\u003eFor Your Own Good\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Smoking Crusade\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTyranny of Public Health\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a senior editor at Reason and a syndicated columnist with Creator's Syndicate. Sullum's weekly column appears in newspapers across the country. His work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eCigar Aficionado\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Review,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Tarcher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300125987045,"sku":"NP9781585423187","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781585423187.jpg?v=1767736162","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/saying-yes-isbn-9781585423187","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}