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For an excellent perspective on the damage the drug war causes internationally, read "The Politics of Heroin" by Alfred McCoy. It's dense but illuminating.
by bitops 15y ago
For an excellent perspective on the damage the drug war causes internationally, read "The Politics of Heroin" by Alfred McCoy. It's dense but illuminating.
- gwern 15y agoI tried to summarize McCoy's book on Wikipedia a few years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_Southeast_Asia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_South... and also cover the controversy on publication. You can find the first edition online if you google; as far as I know, the second edition (the one I have, which covers Afghanistan as well) is not online.