Politics of sin by Kenneth Meier is a book that focuses on regulatory affairs. Meier focuses on the examination of a debate that revolves around drug use. Politics of sin is an excellent book for the study of affairs pertaining to regulation. It discusses the regulation and protection of clients in matters pertaining to drug regulation. This book examines a wide range of regulation issues that are scrutinized within various chapters.  Meir examines the thoughts of people concerning the regulation and protection of consumers of various kinds of drugs. The chapters in the book are well written and contain highly informative information. The topics in the book touch on a variety of issues such as lack of trust, the safety of food and work places (Meier K. 1994). Meir provides a good general idea of various areas of regulation and consumer protection. In each topic, there is enough information that is provided and this information helps readers to comprehend each of the various topics found in the book. There are eight chapters in the book politics of sin and each of these chapters addresses a new idea.

Politics of Sin provides an experimental evaluation of the substance, diplomacy, accomplishment and products of the US national and centralized rules leading to the consumption of unlawful medicine and alcohol (Meier K. 1994). Kenneth Meier shows the significance of a using a variety of approaches to the analysis of public rules. This is because the author has made use of various approaches that have helped in the discussion of each of the topics in this book. Meier shows that studies such as explanatory chronological, quantitative historical and cross-sectional studies can be combined in analyzing the use of drugs in the US. The book offers several findings that include the association of drug law with higher levels of fighting for the minority groups. Another finding that is offered shows the rules concerning drugs are only drafted for the purpose of political uses and not for the protection of needs of the consumers. In addition, the country’s law concerning the enforcement ranks reveals the efforts of the entire nation in controlling the consumption of drugs by the citizens. It also shows that the laws that control the consumption of drugs in the US have little authority on the pricing of illegal drugs (Meier K. 1994). The author makes a conclusion that the recent nationalized drug policies in America are illogical.

Different chapters of the book Politics of sin provide excellent background knowledge and a good summary of the point of view presented by the author. Different topics of the book show a research that is worthy to come up with a complete book rather than discussing it in a single chapter of the book. Meier uses a various view points in his book to discuss the difficult interaction between drug consumers and drug regulators. Meier’s first goal is to look at ruling of drugs through a multiple of disciplines like history, law, economics, political science and consumer science. The other goal of this book tries to facilitate the clarification of the results of the protection of consumers and control of drug policy. Lastly, Meier proposes the change of public policies that are definite in character. The approach used in the book Politics of Sin combined with the rich background information assists in the creation of a wealthy assortment of control issues. Meier shows in this book that the control of drug consumption in any place should be discussed in terms of the manipulation of control bureaucracies and environmental pressures.

Politics of Sin starts with an interesting table which explains Meier’s interest in the study of drug policy (Meier K. 1994). The table at the beginning of the book shows that harmful drugs are legalized in the US and their control is light to the extent that many people can access them.  Drugs that have fewer health effects are shown to be banned in the US and they include cocaine and heroin. The observation that harmful drugs are legalized while less harmful drugs are banned makes readers to conclude that US drug control is quite irrational. Politics of Sin is a book that helps to explain why the drug policy in US is unreasonable. Politics of Sin has a theoretical and substantive purpose. The substantive importance of this book helps to explain the present and previous politics of drug rule in the US and to examine the effectiveness of each of the rules. The theoretical importance of the book Politics of sin helps to explain the various approaches to the analysis of public rule in America.

Politics of sin has two main objectives. One of its objectives is that it provides an empirical assessment of the content of the book, politics implementation and results of the American rules on consumption of illicit drugs such as alcohol (Meier K. 1994). Meier illustrates a multidimensional approach in his analysis of the US policies on drug use. The book gives a general theory of public policy that shows that public rules result from the contact of political organizations, groups and civilian forces that are subject to the constraints emanating from the environment. Politics of sin also gives an historical study of the regulation and consumption of illicit drugs in America. It gives a quantitative chronological analysis of unlawful drugs in America. Moreover, Politics of Sin gives an analysis of the US policies towards drug use. At the end of the book, the author gives a theoretical and substantive conclusion of the study of drugs regulation in the US.