Drugs Sex And Dirty Politics
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Drugs Sex And Dirty Politics
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Author : Dalton Daniels
language : en
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-27
Drugs Sex And Dirty Politics written by Dalton Daniels and has been published by Palmetto Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-27 with categories.
After the housing crash of 2008, people were broke with very few opportunities available. Except for one. A decade earlier, California passed the Compassionate Care Act, allowing residents to grow and cultivate marijuana plants for medicinal purposes. Inspired by the election of Barack Obama, who stated that pursuing medical patients and growers would be a waste of government resources, this was seen as the green light to otherwise law-abiding citizens to get involved in the marijuana industry. Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs and pot enthusiasts flocked to California to stake their claim on this "growing" industry. Author Dalton Daniels decided to risk it all. He sold his home and invested his life savings in a small dispensary in Los Angeles. Soon his store, The Rainforest Collective, became a huge success and the talk of the town. But the storm was coming. The LA district attorney and city attorney demanded that Daniels shut down his operation or face criminal prosecution. Believing he was in the right, Daniels decided to mobilize an army of dispensary owners and attorneys, along with patients, to fight for our American rights. This fight put Daniels in the national spotlight and up against the forces of evil in our government as well as the Mexican drug cartels, who both wanted legalized marijuana to go "up in smoke." Set in the backdrop of LA's steamy social scene, Drugs, Sex, and Dirty Politics is one man's story on the path to legalization that we enjoy today.
Drug Politics
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Author : David C. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-01-22
Drug Politics written by David C. Jordan and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-22 with Business & Economics categories.
Drug Politics is an enlightening new book by a man who knows this disturbing and dangerous subject. A former United States ambassador to Peru, David C. Jordan has testified before the U.S. Senate and House Foreign Relations committees and has consulted with various government security organizations. His account of government protection of the criminal elements intertwined with local and global politics challenges many of the assumptions of current drug policies. Using examples from South America, Mexico, Russia, and the United States, Jordan shows that the narcotics problem is not merely one of supply and demand. Jordan argues that many national and international financial systems are dependent on cash from money laundering, and some governments are far more involved in protecting than in combating criminal cartels.
Sex Drugs And Body Counts
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Author : Peter Andreas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Sex Drugs And Body Counts written by Peter Andreas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with International relations categories.
In this book, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and policy analysts critically examine the murky origins of misleading or inaccurate statistics used in global policy and traces their remarkable proliferation.
Cocaine Politics
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Author : Peter Dale Scott
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Cocaine Politics written by Peter Dale Scott and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with History categories.
When the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency's connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra affair. Broad in scope and extensively documented, Cocaine Politics shows that under the cover of national security and covert operations, the U.S. government has repeatedly collaborated with and protected major international drug traffickers. A new preface discusses developments of the last six years, including the Mercury News stories and the public reaction they provoked.
Drug War Politics
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Author : Eva Bertram
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-07-15
Drug War Politics written by Eva Bertram and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-15 with Social Science categories.
Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics. It demonstrates how, instead of learning from our failures, we duplicate and reinforce them in the same flawed policies. The authors examine the "politics of denial" that has led to this catastrophic predicament and propose a basis for a realistic and desperately needed solution. Domestic and foreign drug wars have consistently fallen short because they are based on a flawed model of force and punishment, the authors show. The failure of these misguided solutions has led to harsher get-tough policies, debilitating cycles of more force and punishment, and a drug problem that continues to escalate. On the foreign policy front, billions of dollars have been wasted, corruption has mushroomed, and human rights undermined in Latin America and across the globe. Yet cheap drugs still flow abundantly across our borders. At home, more money than ever is spent on law enforcement, and an unprecedented number of people—disproportionately minorities—are incarcerated. But drug abuse and addiction persist. The authors outline the political struggles that help create and sustain the current punitive approach. They probe the workings of Washington politics, demonstrating how presidential and congressional "out-toughing" tactics create a logic of escalation while the criticisms and alternatives of reformers are sidelined or silenced. Critical of both the punitive model and the legalization approach, Drug War Politics calls for a bold new public health approach, one that frames the drug problem as a public health—not a criminal—concern. The authors argue that only by situating drug issues in the context of our fundamental institutions—the family, neighborhoods, and schools—can we hope to provide viable treatment, prevention, and law enforcement. In its comprehensive investigation of our long, futile battle with drugs and its original argument for fundamental change, this book is essential for every concerned citizen.
Fixing Drugs
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Author : S. Pryce
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Fixing Drugs written by S. Pryce and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Political Science categories.
In this unique and engaging book, Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why do governments persist with prohibition policies, despite their proven inefficacy? Why are some drugs criminalized, and some not? And why does society care about drug use at all? Pryce guides us through drug policy around the world.
Drugs And Politics
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Author : Paul Elliott Rock
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 1977-01-01
Drugs And Politics written by Paul Elliott Rock and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Reconstructing and reporting the history of a social problem is always a diffi cult and speculative enterprise. Substantial areas of the problem may never have been recorded because they were covert or concealed. Those unknown areas form an uncertain context for interpreting the residue that was intentionally or unwittingly left for others to examine. The residue itself is composed of contributions made by people who were often engaged in masking or transforming the possible signifi cance of what they were doing. The worlds of legislators, control agents, and deviants tend to be complex, ambiguous, and marked by internal contradiction. They revolve around practices that are variously discredited or discreditable; designed for very diverse audiences; expressly public or intensely private; and shaped by confl icting, perhaps irreconcilable, imperatives and principles. Each practice assumes a different meaning when it is individually evaluated. Only a few facets of such worlds will ever become visible, they are politically laden, and those facets that can be inspected must be treated circumspectly.
Cocaine Politics
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Author : Peter Dale Scott
language : en
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
Release Date : 1991
Cocaine Politics written by Peter Dale Scott and has been published by Berkeley : University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Cocaine industry categories.
Now in paperback, this penetrating account of the real drug war will lead readers to demand a more thorough accounting of foreign policy. "Scott and Marshall call for immediate action to end Washington's complicity. Their heavily documented book deserves a wide audience".--Publishers Weekly.
Drugs Power And Politics
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Author : Carl Boggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Drugs Power And Politics written by Carl Boggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.
This book explores the increasingly broad terrain of drugs in American society with an emphasis on politics. It begins with the War on Drugs initiated by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s and extends to the current day with the vast power of the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma), expansion of global criminal syndicates, militarization of the drug war, and struggles between states and federal government over the legalization of marijuana. From the beginning, the drug war produced increasing authoritarian tendencies in American politics, visible not only in swollen national bureaucracies and burgeoning police functions, but in the rise of the largest prison-industrial complex in the world, a surveillance state, and the weakening of personal privacy and freedoms. At the same time, the legal drug system-with some of the most profitable business operations anywhere-has expanded to create a huge medical edifice, affecting the delivery of health care, development of modern psychology, evolution of the treatment industry, and many other areas of contemporary life, including the world of sports and recreation. Although prohibitionism remains very much alive, targeting a wide range of illicit drugs, today it is the hundreds of widely-marketed chemical substances sold by Big Pharma that result in some of the most serious health problems affecting society. This book explores the long historical trajectory of both the War on Drugs and the growth of Big Pharma, focusing on social outcomes and political consequences in the US and beyond.
The Politics Of Cocaine
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Author : William L. Marcy
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2010-02-01
The Politics Of Cocaine written by William L. Marcy and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-01 with Political Science categories.
Drawing on declassified documents and extensive firsthand research, The Politics of Cocaine takes a hard look at the role the United States played in creating the drug industry that thrives in Central and South America. Author William L. Marcy contends that by conflating anti-Communist and counternarcotics policies, the United States helped establish and strengthen the drug trade as the area's economic base. Increased militarization, destabilization of governments, uncontrollable drug trafficking, more violence, and higher death tolls resulted. Marcy explores how the counternarcotics policies of the 1970s collapsed during the 1980s when economic calamity, Andean guerrilla insurgencies, and Reagan's anti-Communist struggle with Nicaragua and Cuba became conflated as part of the War on Drugs. The book then explores how the U.S. invasion of Panama and narcotics related violence throughout Andean region during the 1990s led to the militarization of the War on Drugs as a way to confront narcotics production, narco-traffickers, and narco-guerrillas alike. Marcy brings to the reader up to the end of the George W. Bush administration and explains why to this date the United States remains unable to control the flow of cocaine into the United States and why the War on Drugs appears to be spiraling out of control. The Politics of Cocaine fills in historical gaps and provides a new and controversial analysis of a complex and seemingly unsolvable problem.