Busted

Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs

By: Mike Gray (Editor)

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Paperback | 8 November 2002

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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, Busted tells readers why, charting the violence, chaos, and corruption that the War on Drugs has spawned. It includes frontline reporting from all over the world, literary journalism, public records, and provocative commentary from the left and right. P. J. O'Rourke writes, "Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.... Prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." And Christopher Hitchens has charged that the drug war involves "a demented overseas entanglement, with off-the-record U.S. military aircraft running shady missions over Colombia and Peru, and high-level collaboration with ruthless and unaccountable ‘Special Forces.' Colombia doesn't look any more like the U.S. as a result, but the U.S. does look a lot more like Colombia." From the crack dens of South Central L.A. to Iran Contra, from Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" to Plan Columbia, here is a collection of the most provocative, dissenting writing on the drug wars. Contributors include Gore Vidal, Alexander Cockburn, William Buckley Jr., Milton Friedman, Gary Webb, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, and a jailhouse interview with General Manuel Noriega by Oliver Stone.

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Introduction
Blow Back	p. 3
A Talk with Manuel Noriega	p. 17
Teachings of Don Fernando: A Life and Death in the Narcotics Trade	p. 31
George Soro's Long Strange Trip: A Philanthropist Defies Drug War Orthodoxy	p. 51
What Do We Do When the Drug War Stops?	p. 63
BYO Heroin	p. 67
World Leaders on Dope: Right Joins Left in Call for An End to the Drug War	p. 71
Mayor Rocky Anderson Talks about What It's Like to ... Drop the D.A.R.E. Program	p. 77
Breaking out of the 12-Step Lockstep	p. 81
Drug Abuse Treatment or Drug Treatment Abuse	p. 85
Re-engineering the Drug Business	p. 91
Workaday World, Crack Economy: Breaking Rocks in El Barrio	p. 109
America's Lonely Drug War	p. 121
America's Dirty War on Drugs	p. 125
Why Dutch Drug Policy Threatens the U.S.	p. 127
The Drug Wars: Voices from the Street	p. 137
This is Your Bill of Rights	p. 149
Smash-up Policing: When Law Enforcement Goes Military	p. 155
Casualty in the War on Drugs	p. 159
There's No Justice in the War on Drugs: Can Our Laws Be Moral if They Have So Racist an Effect?	p. 169
Commonsense Drug Policy	p. 173
My Problem With the War on Drugs	p. 187
The War On Drugs Is Lost	p. 197
The Politics of Ecstasy	p. 213
A Mother's Advice about Drugs	p. 217
The Myth of "Harmless" Marijuana	p. 219
The Problem is Pot Prohibition	p. 223
Dope Fiends: A Tape transcript	p. 227
America's Altered States: When Does Legal Relief of Pain Become Illegal Pursuit of Pleasure?	p. 233
The War on (Some) Drugs	p. 257
No Relief in Sight	p. 261
Whither Medical Marijuana	p. 273
About the Contributors	p. 281
Resources	p. 285
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