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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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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...
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Handbook for Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Hispanic Populations
by Robert C Freeman Publisher Comments This volume, with accompanying CD-ROM, is a compendium of information providing practical guidelines for individuals doing drug abuse research with Hispanic populations. Aimed at graduate students and researchers or service providers initiating programs...
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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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Hemp: A Short History of the Most Misunderstood Plant and Its Uses and Abuses
by Mark Bourrie Synopsis A factual look at a controversial subject. In 1935, Popular Science magazine hailed hemp as the new Billion Dollar Crop. Two years later, it was banned. Hemp is the world's strongest natural fiber and has been cultivated for its practical uses for over...
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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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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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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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Psychedelics
by Peter Stafford Publisher Comments In Psychedelics, Peter Stafford offers a framework for understanding the enormous amount of information available on psychoactive substances. In addition to the photographs, illustrations, charts, and tables, he writes about the origins, varieties...
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Mr. Nasty: A Confession
by Cameron White Publisher Comments Despite humble beginnings in East London, Cameron White rapidly rose in the London club scene. After his initial spectacular success as a drug dealer, he ran afoul of notorious London criminals the Doherty brothers and was forced to flee to North America....
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Taking America Off Drugs: Why Behavioral Therapy Is More Effective for Treating ADHD, OCD, Depression, and Other Psychological Problems
by Stephen Ray Flora Synopsis Argues for the superiority of behavioral treatments over drug therapies for psychological problems....
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The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs
by Douglas Valentine Synopsis Based largely on interviews with former agents and supported with extensive documentation, 'The Strength of the Wolf' presents a definitive history of the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), from its birth in 1930 until its wrenching termination in...
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Ecstasy: Its History and Lore
by Miriam Joseph 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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Busted: Stoned Cowboys, Narco-Lords, and the Failure of Washington's War on Drugs
by Mike Gray Publisher Comments Thirty years ago Richard Nixon called drugs "the modern curse of youth" and launched the modern "War on Drugs" as we know it. Thirty years later, even the conservative National Review has said, "The War on Drugs has failed." Spanning three decades...
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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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Meth: Americas Home Cooked Menace
by Dirk Johnson Synopsis 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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Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us
by National Research Co Synopsis How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects of illegal drug use. Yet there is a remarkable paucity of data and research...
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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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Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life
by Shirley Halperin Publisher Comments Do you know the difference between burning one and Burning Man? Does using the name Marley as an adjective make total sense to you? Do you chuckle to yourself when the clock strikes 4: 20? Are you convinced that the movie Dazed and Confused deserved an...
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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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