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The war on drugs : a history
Title
The war on drugs : a history / edited by David Farber.
ISBN
9781479811359
1479811351
9781479811366
147981136X
9781479811427
9781479811397
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Physical Description
vi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," leading scholars examine how drug war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, deviant globalization, regulatory disasters, and a massive underground economy; they also point the way forward to a more just and humane drug policy regime"-- Provided by publisher.
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ebook version :
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 10, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The advent of the war on drugs / David Farber
Drug dealers / David Farber
The Mexico-Chicago heroin connection / Elaine Carey
Cultivating cannabis, excepting cannabis / Michael Polson
The local war on drugs / Peter C. Pihos
Cannabis culture wars / Emily Dufton
Psychedelic wars: LSD as mental medicine in a battle for hearts and minds / Lucas Richert, Erika Dyck, and Alexis Turner
The war on drugs in Mexico / Aileen Teague
The war on drugs in Afghanistan / James Bradford
Between the free market and the drug war / David Herzberg
The pharma cartel / Kathleen Frydl.
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History.
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