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Hope to Die: A Memoir of Jazz and Justice
by Verdi Woodward  Publisher Comments "Verdi Woodward knows every sound of the three basic time warps of our era--heroin, prison and jazz. His book gets them down cold with prose flights springing from the throat of a saxophone." --Charles Bowden, author, "Down by the River" and "A Shadow in...
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This Is Alcohol
by Nick Brownlees Publisher Comments In this powerful and illuminating new series, a team of journalists was commissioned to analyze and comment on the major substances that are seen by society as addictive and ultimately bad for our health....
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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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American Disease 3RD Edition Origins of Narcotic
by David F Musto Publisher Comments The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the...
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No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
by Frank Owen Publisher Comments Hells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses, and military battlefields. In this fascinating book, Frank Owen traces the spread of methamphetamine—...
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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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Writing on Drugs
by Sadie Plant Publisher Comments Through a series of close, fascinating examinations of writing on drugs via, among others, Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline, and Burroughs on all of them, Writing on Drugs combines literary criticism with both socio-cultural...
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The Fugitive Philosopher (Leary, Timothy)
by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments 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...
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High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do about It
by Joseph A Califano Publisher Comments Subtitled, "How Substance Abuse Is Destroying America & We Can Change It"....
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Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade
by Chellis Glendinning Publisher Comments Compelling, disturbing, yet hopeful, "Chiva" is both personal and political, revealing the relationship between colonization and drug abuse, and the importance of reclaiming sustainable culture as a key to recovery....
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Population Fix Breaking Americas Addicti
by Edward C Hartman Publisher Comments "One billion Americans!" That is the heart-stopping census prediction that drives The Population Fix. The only available book describing America's persistent population growth as an addiction--a destructive, but treatable addiction. Alarming, provocative,...
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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...
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After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century
by Timothy Lynch Publisher Comments More than 10 years ago, federal officials boldly claimed that they would create a drug-fee America by 1995....
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Saying Yes : in Defense of Drug Use (03 Edition)
by Jacob Sullum Publisher Comments A nationally syndicated columnist and Reason magazine editor presents a damning portrait of how politicized government agencies, antidrug activists, and a naive national media have exaggerated the public's fears of the harmful effects of recreational...
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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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Hemp Culture: a Short History of a Most Misunderstood Plant and Its Uses and Abuses
by Mark Bourrie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index....
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The Costs of Poor Health Habits
by Willard G Manning Publisher Comments Poor health habits (drinking, smoking, lack of exercise) obviously take their toll on individuals and their families. The costs to society are less obvious but certainly more far-reaching. This investigation is the first to quantify the financial burden...
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The Drug Dilemma: Responding to a Growing Crisis (Sourcebook on Contemporary Controversies)
by Jason Stone Publisher Comments A complete guide for the public debater, debate organizer, coach or consultant. When the debate moves from the confines of the practice arena to the broad and diverse public sphere, the situation requires adaptation and specific efforts to tailor your...
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Trafficking in Drug Users: Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance
by James Ralph Beniger Publisher Comments Examination of the ways organizations and professions coordinated their activities to solve the \'drug problem\' of the 1960s reveals that incentives used to encourage law enforcement officials to control deviance actually fostered a desire to perpetuate...
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Pot Stories for the Soul
by Paul Krassner Synopsis To solicit these stories, Paul Krassner contacted 250 friends and acquaintances and announced the project in High Times and on the air. Including "The Bust at Ken Kesey's Place, " "How the Yippies Mailed 30,000 Joints to Perfect Strangers, " and "The...
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