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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Farber, David, 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Drug control > United States > History.
Drug traffic > United States > History.
Drug abuse > Government policy > United States > History.
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis > Histoire.
Drogues > Trafic > États-Unis > Histoire.
Toxicomanie > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
LAW / Drugs & the Law.
Drug abuse > Government policy.
Drug control.
Drug traffic.
Rauschgift.
Bekämpfung.
Drogenhandel.
Drogenkriminalität.
Drogenkonsum.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the editor
  • About the contributors
  • Index.

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