Ryan Grim

This Is Your Country on Drugs

The Secret History of Getting High in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Seven surprising consequences of the U.S. approach to drugs--find out the facts in THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY ON DRUGS Past antidrug campaigns actually encouraged drug use. A few years ago, America stopped dropping acid altogether. The meth epidemic peaked a long, long time ago. NAFTA opened the border and created a bonanza for cocaine and meth traffickers--just as President Clinton knew it would. President Reagan may have inadvertently caused the crack epidemic. Kids today are doing fewer illegal drugs than kids from any time in the recent past, and for a surprising reason. The fastest-growing drug in America is a legal hallucinogen you can buy on the Internet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 167mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780470167397
• ISBN-10: 0470167394
• Artikelnr.: 26009321

Autorenporträt

Ryan Grim is the "Huffington Post"'s senior congressional correspondent and has written for "Slate," "Rolling Stone," "Harper's," and the "Washington Post."

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Acid Casualty. 2. A Pharmacopoeia Utopia. 3. Prohibition, Inc. 4.
America's Little Helper. 5. New Coke. 6. D.A.R.E. to Be Different. 7.
Border Justice. 8. Kids Today. 9. YouTrip. 10. Blowback. 11. Confl icts of
Interest. 12. Puff, Puff, Live. 13. Cat and Mouse. 14. Acid Redux.
Acknowledgments. Notes. Index.

Rezensionen

"A wide-ranging, fascinating romp through the history of America's insatiable appetite for all manner of drugs, from opium to crystal meth, all the way up to the possibly soon-to-be-illegal hallucinogen Salvia divinorum." -- The Philadelphia City Paper