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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser  Publisher Comments America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his...
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Busted!: Drug War Survival Skills: From the Buy to the Bust to Begging for Mercy
by Max Fabricant Publisher Comments Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous everyman busts, and the author's...
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Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir
by James Salant Publisher Comments With his nickname, Dirty Jersey, tattooed on the inside of his left forearm, James Salant wanted everyone to know he was a tough guy. At the age of eighteen, after one too many run-ins with the cops for drug possession, he left his upper-middle-class...
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The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching
by Terence Mckenna Publisher Comments A thoroughly revised edition of the much-sought-after early work by Terence and Dennis McKenna that looks at shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and the organic unity of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching....
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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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Blow
by Bruce Porter Publisher Comments BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of...
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Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir
by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments Traces the author's twenty-year stint as crystal meth addict, from his lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, an alcoholic artist, to his wild acid trips and experiences navigating through the dark underworld of cookers, users, club kids, dealers,...
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Big Book of Buds Volume 2 More Marijuana Var
by Ed Rosenthal Publisher Comments The Big Book of Buds Volume 2 continues in the tradition of its predecessor by combining stunning, full-color photography with fun and clear descriptions of the characteristics that any gardener or connoisseur wants to know. The book is an informal...
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Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
by Simon Field Publisher Comments Explaining why antifreeze is a component of toothpaste and how salt works in shampoo, this fascinating handbook delves into the chemistry of everyday household products. Decoding more than 150 cryptic ingredients, the guide explains each component...
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Iced: The Crystal Meth Epidemic
by Jerry Langton Publisher Comments This is the first book to expose every aspect of the epidemic for the general reader. From the perspective of experts in drug addiction and doctors, law enforcement, and stories from addicts and former addicts, Iced is a scary but compelling portrait of...
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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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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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Surfing the Conscious Nets
by Timothy Leary Synopsis A graphic novel designed as a Q&A chatroom session with Dr. Leary. Travel the electronic maze of cyborgastic addiction and the search for the absolute aphrodisiac. Topics include "My Lonely Quest for the Male Afrodisiac," "Mengele Lives! Medical Evil...
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Can't Find My Way Home : America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 (04 Edition)
by Martin Torgoff Publisher Comments From the narcotic allure of the bebop and Beat generations to the psychedelic 1960s, Vietnam, the cocaine-fueled disco era, the crack epidemic, and the ecstasy-induced rave culture, illegal drugs have profoundly shaped America's cultural landscape. In...
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Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments Selected writings from the author of Brave New Worldand The Doors of Perceptionon the role of psychedelics in society." •Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere." In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of...
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The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions Into Treatable Disorders
by Peter Conrad Synopsis Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems -- birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity -- are now viewed as medical conditions....
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Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography
by Dominic Streatfeild Publisher Comments The story of cocaine isn’t just about crime and profit; it’s about psychoanalysis, about empire building, about exploitation, emancipation, and, ultimately, about power. To tell the story of the twentieth century without reference to this...
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The Little Box of Drugs: Unbiased and Unadulterated Commentary on the Drugs Debate
by Nick Brownlee Publisher Comments This boxed set offers comprehensive guides to the four major drugs that appear heavily in the media and society, maintaining their appeal despite draconian laws and government propaganda. These portraits of cannabis, cocaine, Ecstasy, and heroin are...
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Drugs
by Leslie Iversen Publisher Comments The twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and mental illnesses. These, along with the introduction of the oral...
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The Psychedelic Reader: Selected from the Psychedelic Review
by Timothy Leary Synopsis This anthology examines the mind-expanding potential of both natural and synthesized psychedelics. The writers include Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, and Sir Julian Huxley....
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