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Up in Smoke From Legislation To
by Martha A Derthick  Publisher Comments Since the 1960s, the government's attempts at tobacco control have operated through standard channels, what Martha Derthick calls "ordinary politics." Legislation was debated in elected legislatures, and after three decades of limited...
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee Publisher Comments In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local...
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Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
by Timothy Jost Publisher Comments In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting...
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Politics of Ecstasy ((Rev)98 Edition)
by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments Writings that sparkle with the psychedelic revolution. The Politics of Ecstasy is Timothy Leary's most provocative and influential exploration of human consciousness, written during the period from his Harvard days to the Summer of Love. Includes his...
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The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920
by Timothy A Hickman Publisher Comments Although the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of...
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Design for dying
by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments As the fringe guru himself put it, Mademoiselle Cancer moved in to share [his] body. But in the days before he died, Leary -- never one to miss an opportunity for a party -- used his approaching death to create an exuberant new vision of what dying can...
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Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication
by Stuart Walton Publisher Comments “Like any good cocktail, this book brings together tasty ingredients in a delicious mix.” —Boston Herald “Walton is hilariously well-versed in wine terminology, and his wit is deliciously dry.” —Seattle Weekly Out of...
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Drug Use Policy & Management 2ND Edition
by Richard Isralowitz Publisher Comments Examines how the complex problem of drug use and dependence may be addressed in the context of its many facets, ranging from drug containment policies to the provision of prevention and treatment services....
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Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use
by Jacob Sullum Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-332) and index....
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Medical Marijuana Law
by Richard Glen Boire Publisher Comments An issue that has been argued before the Supreme Court and that is still the subject of a heated debate across America that is fraught with misunderstanding, medical marijuana is a major, complex topic. This practical manual offers reliable legal...
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Cocaine: Its History and Lore
by Julian Durlacher Publisher Comments Drugs are both vilified -- in newspaper headlines and public health broadcasts -- and glorified -- in film, music and fashion. They continue to fascinate and horrify, in equal measure, and remain perhaps the issue of the twentieth century. This series...
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The Fluoride Deception
by Christopher Bryson Publisher Comments "The Fluoride Deception" unearths one of the great secret narratives of our age, how a grim workplace poison and the most damaging environmental pollutant of the Cold War was added to drinking water and toothpaste....
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Flashing on the Sixties
by Lisa Law Publisher Comments Woodstock, the Human Be-In, the Monterey Pop Festival, the Summer of Love, hanging out with the Beatles, Dylan, Ginsberg, Joplin, Warhol, Cher, Leary, the Velvet Underground - photographer Lisa Law was there for it all, chronicling a cultural revolution...
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The Fluoride Deception
by Christopher Bryson 
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Ashley's Top Five picks for 2004. To read more staff Top Five lists click here....
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Chicken: Love for Sale on the Streets of Hollywood
by David Henry Sterry Synopsis Arriving in Hollywood to attend college, but desperate for money, Sterry was introduced to a pimp who established him as a male prostitute. The story is juxtaposed against bitter anecdotes from Sterry's disintegrating family life....
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Unequal Under Law : Race in the War on Drugs (07 Edition)
by Doris Marie Provine Publisher Comments Race is clearly a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this elusive relationship, Unequal under Law lays out how decades of both manifest and...
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Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lecture in Outhern Hitory)
by Pete Daniel Publisher Comments Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic...
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Cigarettes Are Sublime
by Richard Klein Publisher Comments Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein...
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Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition
by Sarah W Tracy Publisher Comments Alcoholism in America tells the story of physicians, politicians, court officials, and families struggling to address the problem of excessive alcohol consumption at the turn of the century. Beginning with the formation of the American Association for...
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Drugs and the Limits of Liberalism: Moral and Legal Issues
by Pablo De Greiff Publisher Comments Society's drug problem will persist, and debates over how to solve it will continue, getting nowhere, until we define our terms. This book is an effort to do just that -- to parse the legal, moral, and philosophical underpinnings for any discussion of...
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