Bad Trip

“Miller nails it. He powerfully and persuasively articulates the folly, the harm, and the unconstitutionality of our government’s War against Drugs.” LARRY ELDER, host of ABC Radio’s nationally syndicated Larry Elder Show and best-selling author of The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America and Showdown “Drug abuse is bad. But Joel Miller demonstrates that the War on Drugs is far worse. The government is financing terrorism and underwriting corruption even as it violates the freedom of Americans. Yet drug use continues unabated. As Miller so ably proves, the government’s drug war is the ultimate bad trip.” DOUG BANDOW, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan “Joel Miller’s book Bad Trip is a must-read for anyone wishing to learn of the horrors created by the United States’ drug policy. Miller’s exquisitely researched work lists each of the issues and sets before the reader massive documentation of these destructive policies and their more destructive unintended consequences. More important, rather than just complaining, Miller gives his readers sound suggestions for policy solutions that could effectively replace the failed War on Drugs—solutions that would actually lower the incidence of death, disease, crime, and drug addiction.” JACK A. COLE, New Jersey State Police lieutenant (ret.) with fourteen years undercover narcotics experience, executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition “If you are interested in our freedoms or fearful of the government destroying human lives and wasting tax dollars on another American Prohibition, read this book and send a copy to every lawmaker and judge you know.” JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO, Fox News senior judicial analyst “It took guts to write Bad Trip. In clear and riveting language, and with irrefutable facts, Joel Miller explains why laws against drugs—just like laws against guns—help no one except criminals. Such laws enrich gangsters, corrupt politicians, criminalize honest citizens, and eat away at our Bill of Rights. Freedom-loving Americans should resist the War on Drugs as implacably as we defy the War on Guns.” RICHARD POE, best-selling author of The Seven Myths of Gun Control and Hillary’s Secret War “The U.S. government is addicted to the drug war and the power and pelf it reaps from it. But anyone who cares about freedom and justice can only be horrified. Thank goodness for Joel Miller and this important book. As he shows, we have to send the feds to rehab.” LEW ROCKWELL, editor of LewRockwell.com, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute “Joel Miller shows in convincing detail why the War on Drugs is a war on our liberties.” JACOB SULLUM, Reason magazine senior editor, nationally syndicated columnist, and author of Saying Yes The government offers to cure all the ills of mankind. . . . All that is needed is to create some new government agencies and to pay a few more bureaucrats. In a word, the tactic consists in initiating, in the guise of actual services, what are nothing but restrictions; thereafter, the nation pays, not for being served, but for being disserved.”

Frédéric Bastiat