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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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