Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973

Name: Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973
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ISBN: 9781107697003

ISBN-10: 110769700X

ISBN-13: 9781107697003

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kathleen J. Frydl

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The Drug Wars in America,1940-1973 argues that the U.S. government has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures, because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first place. Instead, Kathleen J. Frydl shows that the shift from regulating illicit drugs through taxes and tariffs to criminalizing the drug trade developed from, and was marked by, other dilemmas of governance in an age of vastly expanding state power. Most believe the "drug war" was inaugurated by President Richard Nixon's declaration of a war on drugs in 1971, but in fact his announcement heralded changes that had taken place in the…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 458
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.90" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




1940-1960: Preface


Introduction



Trade in war



Presumptions and pretense: international trade in narcotics



'A society which requires some sort of sedation': domestic drug consumption, circulation, and perception



1960-1973:



Review and reform: the Kennedy commission



Police and clinics: enforcement and treatment in the city, 1960-1973



The cost of denial: Vietnam and the global diversity of the drug trade


Conclusion: war on trade