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Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places » Read Now
by Robert J. Maccoun, Peter Reuter. 479 pgs.

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This meticulously researched study represents the first effort to provide a nonpartisan and objective analysis of how the United States should approach the drug legalization question. It surveys what is known about the effects of different drug policies in Western Europe and what happened when...
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This meticulously researched study represents the first effort to provide a nonpartisan and objective analysis of how the United States should approach the drug legalization question. It surveys what is known about the effects of different drug policies in Western Europe and what happened when cocaine and heroin were legal in the US a century ago. The book shows that legalization involves different tradeoffs between health and crime and the interests of the inner city minority communities and the middle class. The book explains why it is so difficult to accomplish substantial reform of drug policy.
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Power, Ideology, and the War on Drugs: Nothing Succeeds like Failure » Read Now
by Christina Jacqueline Johns. 212 pgs.

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Why does the administration continue to follow a drug policy of criminalization and enforcement? In this probing volume, Johns demonstrates that while the War on Drugs has been a failure in some respects, it has been highly successful in others--it has diverted attention from severe social problems...
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Why does the administration continue to follow a drug policy of criminalization and enforcement? In this probing volume, Johns demonstrates that while the War on Drugs has been a failure in some respects, it has been highly successful in others--it has diverted attention from severe social problems, legitimated the virtual abandonment of the lower class, legitimated a vast expansion of U.S. state power and a consequent erosion of civil liberties, and furthered projections of U.S. power into Latin America. This book changes a trend in the literature by unmasking the real consequences of the Drug War.
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Rhetoric in the War on Drugs: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Public Relations » Read Now
by William N. Elwood. 190 pgs.

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While much has been written on illicit drug use, policy, and drugs' relationship to crime, this study examines the drug war as most Americans have experienced it--through mass-mediated rhetoric: presidential drug war declarations, news stories and hype, public service announcements, and the like...
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While much has been written on illicit drug use, policy, and drugs' relationship to crime, this study examines the drug war as most Americans have experienced it--through mass-mediated rhetoric: presidential drug war declarations, news stories and hype, public service announcements, and the like. Such rhetoric influences public opinion about illegal drugs, drug users, presidents, and the drug war itself. And according to this author, such rhetoric is also used as a public relations campaign designed to increase the popularity of government officials and to assure quiescence regarding particular policy programs. This study demonstrates the underestimated influence of rhetoric, political uses of public relations and the powerful influence they have on public opinion and the policy process.
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Sharing the Secrets: Open Source Intelligence and the War on Drugs » Read Now
by J. F. Holden-Rhodes. 244 pgs.

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This important work identifies the problems of counter-drug intelligence and points toward a remedy for the failed anti-drug policies in the United States through the effective use of open source intelligence.
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Mexico's "War" on Drugs: Causes and Consequences » Read Now
by Maria Celia Toro. 108 pgs.

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...MEXICOS "WAR" ON DRUGS STUDIES ON THE IMPACT OF THE ILLEGAL...United Nations University UNU MEXICOS "WAR" ON DRUGS Causes and Consequences Maria...Toro, Maria Celia, 1957...
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Handbook of Drug Control in the United States » Read Now
by James A. Inciardi. 424 pgs.

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This timely handbook surveys the U.S. government's efforts to control illegal drugs. Inciardi and his contributors offer a useful way of thinking about and understanding the problem of illegal drugs, and provide the history of and research on drug policy so that policy makers have a necessary tool...
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This timely handbook surveys the U.S. government's efforts to control illegal drugs. Inciardi and his contributors offer a useful way of thinking about and understanding the problem of illegal drugs, and provide the history of and research on drug policy so that policy makers have a necessary tool for developing a realistic and effective national drug policy.
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Drug Policy in the Americas » Read Now
by Peter H. Smith. 366 pgs.

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...Enlisting Armed Forces in the War on Drugs, Bruce M. Bagley 129...United States chose to declare a "war on drugs." At stake was not only the health...Repeated public...
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Communication Campaigns about Drugs: Government, Media, and the Public » Read Now
by Pamela J. Shoemaker. 136 pgs.

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...and its effects. The governments "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s was designed...during the period. Although the war on drugs culminated during the Reagan...
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The Latin American Narcotics Trade and U.S. National Security » Read Now
by Donald J. Mabry. 208 pgs.

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The Latin American narcotics trade is an important national security issue for the United States because it is destabilizing important Latin American allies and creating serious social problems within the United States. Frustration with the inability to block the flow of cocaine, marijuana, and...
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The Latin American narcotics trade is an important national security issue for the United States because it is destabilizing important Latin American allies and creating serious social problems within the United States. Frustration with the inability to block the flow of cocaine, marijuana, and heroin from Latin America prompted passage of major national anti-drug laws in 1986 and 1988. Throughout the decade, United States narcotics policy has created serious friction between the United States and Latin America yet, according to Mabry, it essentially has failed in its goals. An extensive bibliography is included, designed to give other scholars and those interested in this issue an excellent start for further research.
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Drugs and Drug Policy in America: A Documentary History » Read Now
by Steven R. Belenko. 380 pgs.

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Debates over the use and abuse of drugs, the laws controlling drugs in this country, and the question of whether or not certain drugs should be legally available have inflamed Americans since the 19th-century, and continue to flourish as America attempts to rage its "war on drugs." Students can...
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Debates over the use and abuse of drugs, the laws controlling drugs in this country, and the question of whether or not certain drugs should be legally available have inflamed Americans since the 19th-century, and continue to flourish as America attempts to rage its "war on drugs." Students can trace the history and development of these arguments, as well as the reactions to them, through this unique collection of over 250 primary documents. Court cases, speeches, laws, opinion pieces, and other documents bring to life the controversies surrounding the issues. Explanatory introductions to documents aid users in understanding the various arguments put forth, while illuminating the significance of each document.
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Breaking the Impasse in the War on Drugs » Read Now
by Steven Wisotsky. 282 pgs.

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...BREAKING the IMPASSE in the WAR ON DRUGS Recent Titles in Contributions...editors BREAKING the IMPASSE in the WAR ON DRUGS STEVEN WISOTSKY Foreword by...Steven. Breaking...
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Drugs and Foreign Policy: A Critical Review » Read Now
by Raphael F. Perl. 227 pgs.

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Smoke and Mirrors: The Paradox of the Drug Wars » Read Now
by Jaime Malamud Goti. 117 pgs.

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...1. Entering the Bolivian War on Drugs 7 2. The Kollas...to Bolivia and investigate the war on drugs in detail. The Harry-Frank Guggenheim...in the United States about the...
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Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy » Read Now
by Jimmie L. Reeves, Richard Campbell. 330 pgs.

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...Part I Re-Covering the War on Drugs 13 1 The Cocaine...counterfeit claims underwriting Reagans war on drugs, however, we have conscientiously...that connects news coverage...
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Snowfields: The War on Cocaine in the Andes » Read Now
by Clare Hargreaves. 201 pgs.

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...so as to show it is winning its war on drugs. Similar caution should be applied...Questioning the strategy of the war on drugs means questioning the evil nature...heralded...
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Drugs in South Asia: From the Opium Trade to the Present Day » Read Now
by M. Emdad-ul Haq. 319 pgs.

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The drug problem in South Asia is mounting. This work provides an inside story of the pro-revenue drug policies pursued by the British colonial authorities and post-independent governments in South Asia.