Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
The War on Drugs
- A History
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
The War on Drugs
Buy Now for £16.00
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs", the United States government has spent more than 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.
In a rare multifaceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, The War on Drugs: A History examines 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 lifeline as players in a remunerative transnational supply and distribution network of illicit drugs.
More from the same
What listeners say about The War on Drugs
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- JONAH8208
- 15-03-22
Great Info
But bad narration, the essays are all excellent in depth history of drug law enforcement from a US perspective. I learned a lot and I knew a lot about narcotics in the first place. Everyone in law enforcement should read and understand this and then just say no! To America and it’s devastating toll on the rest of the world with its coercive and pointless war on drugs.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!