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Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure Paperback - 1997

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  • Title Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
  • Author Dan Baum
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Printing
  • Pages 396
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-05
  • ISBN 9780316084468 / 0316084468
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.64 x 5.5 x 0.88 in (21.95 x 13.97 x 2.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Drug traffic - United States, Drug control - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97202855
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.450
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Used/GovernmentThis paperback book is in very good condition. Pages are clean & crisp. Covers look great as well.For sheer government absurdity, the War on Drugs is hard to beat. After three decades of increasingly punitive policies, illicit drugs are more easily available, drug potencies are greater, drug killings are more common, and drug barons are richer than ever. The War on Drugs costs Washington more than the Commerce, Interior, and State departments combined - and it's the one budget item whose growth is never questioned. A strangled court system, exploding prisons, and wasted lives push the cost beyond measure. What began as a flourish of campaign rhetoric in 1968 has grown into a monster. And while nobody claims that the War on Drugs is a success, nobody suggests an alternative. Because to do so, as Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders learned, is political suicide. Dan Baum interviewed more than 175 people - from John Ehrlichman to Janet Reno - to tell the story of how Drug War fever has been… Read More
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