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The High Times Reader by Annie Nocenti Publisher Comments Launched in 1974, "High Times" magazine has served as a preeminent showcase of the American counterculture. This collection offers a unique historical perspective on the current tendencies toward suppressing American civil liberties.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Pot Farm by Matthew Gavin Frank Publisher Comments After eight months in his childhood home helping his mother through her bout with cancer, Matthew Frank and his wife were themselves desperate for comfort. They found sanctuary in the most unlikely place—amid a collection of outcasts and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science, and Culture by Mike Jay Publisher Comments An illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals - Featuring artwork from the upcoming High Society exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, one of the world's greatest... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 by Martin Torgoff Publisher Comments Torgoff examines how America's fascination with the new frontiers of inner space and consciousness gave birth to a mass culture of recreational drug use. Features interviews with eyewitnesses to the drug revolution, including Allen Ginsberg, Timothy... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance Enhancing Drugs by Andrew Tilin Synopsis What happens to a regular guy who dopes? Surprised to learn that pro athletes arent the only ones taking performance-enhancing substances, journalist Andrew Tilin goes in search of the average juicing Joe, hoping to find a few things out: Why would... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth by Frank Owen Publisher Comments Hells Angels and fallen televangelists. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, urban clubs, college campuses, and military battle?elds. Methamphetamine is the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture. Like cocaine and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy by Cynthia Kuhn Publisher Comments The essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior. Scientifically accurate and easy to read, this no-nonsense handbook gives the most balanced, objective information available on the most often used... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Cocaine by Nick Constable Publisher Comments The recreational drug with the fastest-growing popularity, cocaine is marked by contrasts: it brings euphoria and despair, results in obscene wealth and dire poverty, and is used by both Peruvian hill farmers and sharply dressed American professionals... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine by John Mccaslin Publisher Comments Weed Man - The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine - is John McCaslin's account of the unbelievable exploits of a Jimmy Moree - a law-abiding citizen turned million-dollar drug trafficker, who, amidst sometimes unbelievable, hilarious and escalating... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Andean Cocaine Industry by Patrick L Clawson Publisher Comments It is commonly known that the Andean nations of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia are the international centers of cocaine production. But until now, there has been no comprehensive view of this billion dollar industry. Using never-before unearthed information... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spliffs 3 the Last Word in Cannabis by Tim Pilcher Publisher Comments Follow-up volume to the bestselling "Spliffs" and "Spliffs 2". More unknown facts and entertaining stories.... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fugitive Philosopher (Leary, Timothy) by Timothy Leary Synopsis Busted for pot in 1965, Timothy Leary was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He escaped, and thus began an almost farcical odyssey: the former West Point student and Harvard professor was now an acid-tripping fugitive. In this delightfully irreverent... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Under the Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs by Preston Peet Publisher Comments In the latest in the oversize Disinformation Guide series of anthologies, editor Preston Peet assembles an all-star cast to lay to rest the specious misinformation peddled by prohibitionists who depend upon the “War on some drugs and users&rdquo... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry by David Kessler Publisher Comments Tobacco companies had been protecting their turf for decades. They had congressmen in their pocket. They had corrupt scientists who made excuses about nicotine, cancer and addiction. They had hordes of lawyers to threaten anyone—inside the industry... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments Joey O'Shay is not the real name of the narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country. But Joey O'Shay exists. The nearly three hundred drug busts he has orchestrated over more than two decades are real, too; if the drug war were a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography by Dominic Streatfeild Publisher Comments The story of cocaine isnt just about crime and profit; its about psychoanalysis, about empire building, about exploitation, emancipation, and, ultimately, about power. To tell the story of the twentieth century without reference to this drug and its... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Timothy Leary: Outside Looking in by Robert Forte Publisher Comments A memorial volume to one of this century's most colorful and pioneering figures in the consciousness movement •A wide array of individuals from all stages of Leary's life provides a comprehensive view of the man and his impact on American culture One... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding Publisher Comments The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of Oelwein, Iowa, and tracing the connections to the global forces that set the stage for the meth epidemic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shroom a Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom Uk by Andy Letcher Publisher Comments Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? Was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? The world of the magic mushroom is a place where shamans and... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chemical Cowboys: The DEA's Secret Mission to Hunt Down a Notorious Ecstasy Kingpin by Lisa Sweetingham Publisher Comments For nearly a decade, Ecstasy kingpin Oded Tuito was the mastermind behind a drug ring that used strippers and Hassidic teenagers to mule millions of pills from Holland to the party triangleLos Angeles, New York, and Miami. Chemical Cowboys is a thrilling... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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