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

Mike Gray

ISBN 10: 0415926475 / ISBN 13: 9780415926478

Editore: Routledge, 2000

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Riassunto:

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. In Drug 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 experts recommend simply prescribing drugs to addicts, and communities that have done this report a lower crime rate and reduced unemployment among drug users.

In a riveting account of how we got to this impasse--discriminatory policies, demonization of users, grandstanding among both lawmakers and lawbreakers--conventional wisdom is turned on its head. Rather than a planned assault on the scourge of addiction, the drug war has happened almost by accident and has been continually exploited by political opportunists. A gripping account of the violence, corruption, and chaos characterizing the drug war since its inception, Mike Gray's incisive narrative launches a frontal attack on America's drug orthodoxy. His overview of the battlefield makes it clear that this urgent debate must begin now.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Mike Gray, author of the screenplay for The ChinaSyndrome, is a frequent contributor to the Los AngelesTimes, The Nation and Rolling Stone. In 1962, he formed his own film company in Chicago, which produced the award-winning documentaries American Revolution and TheMurder of Fred Hampton. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Titolo: Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and ...
Casa editrice: Routledge
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
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