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Over the last fifteen years, American taxpayers have spent over $300 billion to wage the war on drugs--three times what it cost to put a man on the moon. In Drug Crazy, journalist Mike Gray offers a scathing indictment of this financial fiasco, chronicling a series of expensive and hypocritical follies that have benefited only two groups: professional anti-drug advocates and drug lords. The facts are alarming. More than twenty-five years ago, a presidential committee determined that marijuana is neither an addictive substance nor a'stepping stone'to harder drugs, but the embarrassing final report was shelved by a government already heavily invested in'the war against drugs'. Many medical experts recommend simply prescribing drugs to addicts, and communities that have done this report a lower crime rate and reduced unemployment among drug users.In a riveting account of how we got to this impasse--discriminatory policies, demonization of users, grandstanding among both lawmakers and lawbreakers--conventional wisdom is turned on its head. Rather than a planned assault on the scourge of addiction, the drug war has happened almost by accident and has been continually exploited by politi

Who reads Drug Crazy : How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out?

Author

Gray, Mike

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415926478

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.19 / 5 (174 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14