{"product_id":"the-war-on-drugs-a-history-9781479811366","title":"The War on Drugs: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David R. Farber\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Drugs \u0026amp; the Law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revealing look at the history and legacy of the \"War on Drugs\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a \"War on Drugs,\" the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges--most of them involving cannabis--and nearly 500,000 Americans are currently incarcerated for drug offenses. Today, as a response to the dire human and financial costs, Americans are fast losing their faith that a War on Drugs is fair, moral, or effective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a rare multi-faceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, \u003ci\u003eThe War on Drugs: A History \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how drug war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, regulatory disasters, and a massive underground economy. At the same time, the collection explores how aggressive anti-drug policies produced a \"deviant\" form of globalization that offered economically marginalized people an economic life-line as players in a remunerative transnational supply and distribution network of illicit drugs. While several essays demonstrate how government enforcement of drug laws disproportionately punished marginalized suppliers and users, other essays assess how anti-drug warriors denigrated science and medical expertise by encouraging moral panics that contributed to the blanket criminalization of certain drugs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy analyzing the key issues, debates, events, and actors surrounding the War on Drugs, this timely and impressive volume provides a deeper understanding of the role these policies have played in making our current political landscape and how we can find the way forward to a more just and humane drug policy regime.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45029522243735,"sku":"9781479811366","price":2953.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781479811366.webp?v=1769204052","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-war-on-drugs-a-history-9781479811366","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}