Drugs and Thugs : The History and Future of America's War on Drugs.
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- text
- computer
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- 9780300255874
- 364.1/770973
- HV5825.C73 2020
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1 DRUGS AND THE DRUG WAR IN CONTEXT -- 1. Drugs 101 -- 2. Alcohol -- 3. Cocaine -- 4. Opium -- 5. Cannabis -- 6. Tobacco -- 7. Crackdown -- 8. Amphetamines -- 9. Alternative Consciousness -- 10. Nixon's War -- 11. Reagan's War -- PART 2 SUPPLY-SIDE CRUSADE -- 12. Supply Side -- 13. Kingpin -- 14. Plan Colombia -- 15. Catastrophic Success -- 16. Our Man in Lima -- 17. Bolivian Backlash -- 18. El Narco Mexicano -- 19. Fear and Loathing in Central America -- 20. The Global War -- PART 3 THE HOME FRONT -- 21. The War over the War on Drugs -- 22. Law Enforcement and Incarceration -- 23. Cannabis Revisited -- 24. Big Tobacco -- 25. Psychedelics 2.0 -- 26. The Most American Drug -- 27. Opioid Nation -- Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America's domestic and global drug war.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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