How long does it take to read Licit and Illicit Drugs?
Edward M. Brecher
Licit and Illicit Drugs by Edward M. Brecher takes about 11 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1972. 623 pages, about 171,325 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book by the publishers of Consumer Reports is the most informative book on drugs and addictions on the market. Originally published in 1972, it documents in great detail not only the impact of drug use, but also the greater harms that arise from our efforts to Prohibit these drugs. It as is if we never learned from the massive increase in crime and and bloodshed from our disastrous thirteen year experience with Alcohol Prohibition. It has several chapters dedicated to each drug from caffeine to heroin and amphetamines. A must read for anyone who wishes to develop pragmatic solutions to America's drug use dilemma. In almost every instance our policies dealing with illicit drug use CAUSE more harms than use of the drugs themselves. This should be required reading for every member of Congress. It is amazing that so much of what we "know about drugs" is wrong.
Subjects: Drugs, Drug abuse, Physiological effect, Drug Legislation, Drug addiction, Narcotics
