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The Case for Legalizing Drugs
by Richard Lawr Miller  Publisher Comments On the 75th anniversary of the Harrison Narcotic Act that unleashed the federal anti-drug crusade, historian Richard Lawrence Miller explores the origins, purposes, and effects of America's drug war. Thoroughly documented, this book assembles diverse...
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Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
by Mike Gray Publisher Comments 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...
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Timothy Leary: A Biography
by Robert Greenfield Publisher Comments To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the...
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Good Medicine, Great Sex!: How Marijuana Brought Me Creativity, Passion, and Prosperity
by David Ford Publisher Comments Description: Not only pursues the author's eloquent struggle against the politically motivated and totally unjust war on marijuana, but also delves deeply and honestly into his own life. Ford's life as a creative entrepreneur, intrepid broadcaster...
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Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids
by Rena I Steinzor Publisher Comments In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the past twenty years, has failed to protect children from harm caused by toxic chemicals. She believes these failures--under-funding, excessive and misguided use...
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Timothy Leary: A Biography
by Robert Greenfield Publisher Comments To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the...
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Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000
by Martin Torgoff Publisher Comments Can't Find My Way Home is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American...
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Meth: Americas Home Cooked Menace
by Dirk Johnson Publisher Comments A harrowing look at the personal, social, and environmental impact of America's newest drug abuse trend. Methamphetamine has been around for decades, but the recent surge in clandestine "cooking" labs in homes, hotel rooms, and even cars has made this...
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Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class
by Ronald W Dworkin Publisher Comments Ronald Dworkin, Fellow at the Hudson Institute, has written a book of social commentary that combines the politics of healthcare and medical ethics with several momentous changes that have dramatically altered the relationship among doctors and patients,...
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What's in This Stuff?: The Hidden Toxins in Everyday Products and What You Can Do about Them
by Patricia Thomas Publisher Comments The essential reference to what's really in the products we buy. Every day Americans eat processed food and use toiletries, cosmetics, household cleaners, gardening supplies and often pet care products of some kind. It's time to ask What's in This Stuff?...
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Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes
by Michael K Steinberg Publisher Comments Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychoactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals. Once such plants are adopted by outsiders for profane use, the often impoverished peasant farmers who...
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Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places
by Robert MacCoun and Peter Reuter Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-455) and indexes....
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Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class
by Ronald W. Dworkin Publisher Comments Reveals the dark side of the staggering rise in antidepressant prescription, alternative medicine, etc....
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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...
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Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
by Charles Bowden Publisher Comments An investigative tour de force from award-winning author Charles Bowden plumbs as never before the desperation of drug culture in a work hailed by critics as one of the best books of 2002. An extraordinary new book of investigative reporting seven...
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Cannabis
by Nick Brownlee Publisher Comments Wonder drug or social menace? The perennial question may never be answered, as factions on both sides hold fast to their beliefs. Doctors and scientists hail its medicinal merits while politicians and others insist that cannabis, in any form, is the...
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Politics of Psychopharmacology (Leary Library)
by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments In this brief, lively book of reminiscences, the man Allen Ginsberg called "a hero of American consciousness" describes his transformation from bohemian professor to avatar of the new age. In his typically wry, provocative style, Timothy Leary gives...
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Vice Slang
by Tom Dalzell Synopsis Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol...
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The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions Into Treatable Disorders
by Peter Conrad Publisher Comments Building on more than three decades of research, Peter Conrad explores the forces behind the trend to treat what were once commonly considered normal human conditions as medical ailments. Using case studies of short stature, social anxiety, "male...
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The Pursuit of Oblivion
by Richard Davenport-hines Publisher Comments In this uniquely comprehensive history of drugs and their role in society, award-winning historian Davenport-Hines examines how illicit medicines developed into a huge illegal business. Drawing on evidence from five centuries, "The Pursuit of Oblivion...
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