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Recommended ReadingGeneral Drug War Histories
The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control, © 1999 by David F. Musto
Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America, © 2003 by Ted Galen Carpenter
Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and
Washington's War On Drugs, © 2000 by Mike
Gray (Ed.)
Drug Crazy, © 2000 by Mike Gray
Drug Crazy is also available to read online - complete with a brand new introduction - through Libertary.com.
Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics,
© 2004 by Curtis Marez
Federal Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and Practice, © 2004 by Jonathon Erlen, Joseph F. Spillane, Rebecca Carroll, William Mcallister, and Dennis B. Worthen (Eds.)
Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations,
© 2008 by Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann
Smoke & Mirrors,
© 1997 by Dan Baum
This is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America,
© 2009 by Ryan Grim
Specific Histories
Altering American Consciousness: The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800-2000, © 2004 by Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline Jean Acker (Eds.)
Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug, © 2009 by Paul Gootenberg
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View
of the World, © 2001 by Michael Pollan
Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920, © 2002 by Joseph F. Spillane (Ed.)
Cocaine: Global Histories, © 1999 by Paul Gootenberg (Ed.)
The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City,
© 2007 by Mary Ting Yi Lui
Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America,
© 2001 by David Courtwright
Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground,
© 2003 by Marek Kohn
Drugs in Afghanistan: Opium, Outlaws, and Scorpion Tales, © 2007 by David Macdonald
Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World,
© 2002 by David Courtwright
Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, © 2007 by Matthew B. Robinson and Renee G. Scherlen
Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine,
© 1993 by Lester Grinspoon, MD and James Bakalar
The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States,
© 1999 by Richard J. Bonnie and Charles H. Whitebread
On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine,
© 2008 by Nicolas Rasmussen
Prescription Pot: A Leading Advocate's Heroic
Battle To Legalize Medical Marijuana,
© 2003 by George McMahon and Christopher Largen
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor In The
American Black Market,© 2004 by Eric Schlosser
Repealing National Prohibition, © 2000 by
David E. Kylvig
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom,© 2008 by Andy Letcher
Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America,© 1998 by William L. White
Smack: Heroin and the American City,© 2008 by Eric C. Schneider
Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs,© 1999 by Philip Jenkins
Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants,© 1993 by Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Ethnographies
Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing,© 2006 by Norm Stamper
Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke,© 2006 by Dean Kuipers
The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring,© 1990 by Terry Williams
Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine,© 2008 by Wendy Chapkis and Richard Webb
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio,
© 2002 by Philippe Bourgois
Righteous Dopefiend,
© 2009 by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor,
© 2009 by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx,© 2004 by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Sexed Work: Gender, Race and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market,
© 1997 by Lisa Maher
Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community,
© 1985 by Patricia A. Adler
Race, Gender, Class, Human Rights, and the War on Drugs
A More Perfect Union, © 2001 by Jesse L.
Jackson, Jr.
Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice, © 1997 by Craig Reinerman and Harry G. Levine (Eds.)
Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes,
© 2004 by Michael K. Steinberg, Joseph J. Hobbs, and Kent Mathewson (Eds.)
Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drugs and Social Inequality,
© 2007 by Merrill Singer
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, © 2007 by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System,
© 1999 by David C. Cole
Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma,
© 1999 by Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum
Race to Incarcerate,
© 1999 by Marc Mauer
Search and Destroy:
African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System,
© 1997 by Jerome
G. Miller
Shattered Lives:
Portraits from America's Drug War,
© 1998 by Mikki Norris
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town,
© 2005 by Nate Blakeslee
Unequal Under Law:
Race in the War on Drugs,
© 2007 by Doris Marie Provine
Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice,
© 2000 by Nancy Campbell
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System,
© 2007 by Silja J. A. Talvi
Drugs, Drug Users, the Drug War, and the Media
Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen,
© 2005 by Richard Stratton (Ed.)
Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945 - 2000,
© 2005 by Martin Torgoff (Ed.)
Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy,
© 1994 by Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell
Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks,
© 2008 by Stephen J. Gertz and Annie Nocenti
Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use,
© 2003 by Jacob Sullum
Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience,
© 2000 by Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz (Eds.)
White Out: The CIA, Drugs and the Press,
© 1999 by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Contemporary Drug Policy - Analyses and Proposals for Change
After Prohibition:
An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century,
© 2000 by Tim
Lynch (Editor)
America's Longest War: Rethinking Our Tragic
Crusade Against Drugs,
© 2004 by Steven B. Duke and Albert
C. Gross
Drugs: Should We Legalize, Decriminalize
or Deregulate? (Contemporary
Issues),
© 1998 by Jeffrey A. Schaler (Editor)
Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs:
What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us,"
©2001, National Research
Council for the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Sense and Nonsense About Crime and Drugs: A Policy Guide,
© 2005 by Samuel Walker
Why Marijuana Should be Legal,
© 2003 by Ed Rosenthal, Steve Kubby, and S. Newhart
Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed And What We Can Do About It:
A Judicial Indictment Of Our War On Drugs,
© 2001 by
Judge James P. Gray
Addiction Treatment and Harm Reduction
Addict In The Family, © 1996 by Andrew Byrne
Addiction is a Choice, © 2000 by Jeffrey
Schaler, PhD
Addiction Proof Your Child: A Realistic Approach to Preventing Drug, Alcohol, and Other Dependencies,
© 2007 by Stanton Peele
Harm Reduction: National and International
Perspectives, by James A. Inciardi, PhD (Editor)
and Lana D. Harrison (Editor)
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems,
© 2002 by Dr. Andrew Tatarsky
Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided
Drug Rehab System, © 2001 by Lonnie Shavelson, MD
Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol, © 2003 by Patt Denning, Jeannie Little, and Adina Glickman
Activists Guides - Books to Help You Get Involved
The Activist's Handbook: A Primer (Updated Edition), © 2001 by Randy Shaw
After the War on Drugs: Tools for the Debate, © 2007 by Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Meaningful Participation: An Activist's Guide to Collaborative Policy-Making, © 2002 by Gayle L. Gifford
And don't forget to check out CSDP's Links and Get Active! pages for more useful information about becoming a participant in the drug policy reform movement. Reference
The Encyclopedia of Addictive Drugs, © 2002 by Richard
Lawrence Miller
Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts,
© 1997 by Lynn Zimmer, PhD and John Morgan, MD
Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered,
© 1997 by James B. Bakalar and Lester Grinspoon
Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence,
© 2005 by Mitch Earleywine
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