Drug Crazy How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out

Name: Drug Crazy How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
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ISBN: 9780415926478

ISBN-10: 0415926475

ISBN-13: 9780415926478

Edition: 2000

Authors: Mike Gray

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Over the last fifteen years, American taxpayers have spent over $300 billion to wage the war on drugs--three times what it cost to put a man on the moon. InDrug Crazy, journalist Mike Gray offers a scathing indictment of this financial fiasco, chronicling a series of expensive and hypocritical follies that have benefited only two groups: professional anti-drug advocates and drug lords. The facts are alarming. More than twenty-five years ago, a presidential committee determined that marijuana is neither an addictive substance nor a "stepping stone" to harder drugs, but the embarrassing final report was shelved by a government already heavily invested in "the war against drugs". Many medical…

Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/27/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments



A Tale of Two Cities--Chicago: 1995/1925



May It Please the Court



Long Day's Journey into Night



The Devil and Harry Anslinger



Addiction to Disaster



The River of Money



Montezuma's Revenge



Mission Impossible



Lessons from the Old Country



Reefer Madness



Prescription for Sanity


Appendix A


U.S. Murder Rate


Federal Drug War Budget, 1981-1993


State and Federal Prison Population, 1966-1996



An Activist's Guide


Notes


Index