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The war on drugs : a history /

"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 w...

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Group Author: Farber, David R.
Published: New York University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2022]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Drug control > United States > History.
Drug traffic > United States > History.
Drug abuse > Government policy > United States > History.
Drug abuse > Government policy.
Drug control.
Drug traffic.
United States.
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"--
Carrier Form: vi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781479811366
147981136X
Index Number: HV5825
CLC: D771.288-09
Call Number: D771.288-09/W253
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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