| Description |
1 online resource (357 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- How We Got into This Predicament -- A Declaration of War Leads to a Shambles -- Heroin: Fear and Loathing -- Cocaine: White Lines -- Marijuana: Sparking the Debate -- The Economics of Illegal Drugs: Our Gift to Organized Crime -- Prohibition vs. the Alternative: The Bottom Line -- A Shifting International Consensus -- Stepping Out in Front: The Americas -- Prohibition, "Prohibition Lite," or Legalization? -- The Outlier: Canada -- A Popular Groundswell for Change -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Explores the spectacular failure of the war on drugs to weaken drug cartels and the illegal drug supply, as well as the modern history of drug use and abuse, the pharmacology of illegal drugs, and the economy of the illegal drug trade |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL, viewed on October 22, 2015) |
| Subject |
Drug abuse -- History.
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Drug control -- History.
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Drug traffic -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1459722906 |
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1459722914 (electronic bk.) |
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9781459722897 |
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9781459722903 |
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9781459722910 (electronic bk.) |
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