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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New York University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [2022] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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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. |