
The war on drugs : a history
The war on drugs
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
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Omfang | vi, 365 sider : illustrasjoner i svart hvitt
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Opplysninger | Introduction / David Farber ; Part I : Background ; 1. The advent of the war on drugs / David Farber ; Part II : Supply and demand ; 2. Drug dealers / David Farber ; 3. The Mexico-Chicago heroin connection / Elaine Carey ; 4. Cultivating cannabis, excepting cannabis / Michael Polson ; Part III : The domestic front ; 5. The local war on drugs / Peter C. Pihos ; 5. Cannabis culture wars / Emily Dufton ; 7. Psychedelic wars : LSD as mental medicine in a battle for hearts and minds / Lucas Richert, Erika Dyck, and Alexis Turner ; Part IV : The international front ; 8. The war on drugs in Mexico / Aileen Teague ; 9. The war on drugs in Afghanistan / James Bradford ; Part V : The alternative to war ; 10. Between the free market and the drug war / David Herzberg ; 11. The pharma cartel / Kathleen Frydl. - Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges—most of them involving cannabis—and nearly 500,000 Americans are currently incarcerated for drug offenses. Today, as a response to the dire human and financial costs, Americans are fast losing their faith that a War on Drugs is fair, moral, or effective.In a rare multi-faceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, The War on Drugs: A History examines how drug war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, regulatory disasters, and a massive underground economy. At the same time, the collection explores how aggressive anti-drug policies produced a “deviant” form of globalization that offered economically marginalized people an economic life-line as players in a remunerative transnational supply and distribution network of illicit drugs. While several essays demonstrate how government enforcement of drug laws disproportionately punished marginalized suppliers and users, other essays assess how anti-drug warriors denigrated science and medical expertise by encouraging moral panics that contributed to the blanket criminalization of certain drugs.By analyzing the key issues, debates, events, and actors surrounding the War on Drugs, this timely and impressive volume provides a deeper understanding of the role these policies have played in making our current political landscape and how we can find the way forward to a more just and humane drug policy regime.
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Emner | Drug abuse - Government policy - History. - United States
Drug control - History. - United States Drug traffic - History. - United States narkotika narkotikamisbruk Vis mer... Amerika USA
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ISBN | 9781479811359. - 9781479811366. - £106.00
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