num_pages: 268
description: Drug Crazy is a scathing indictment of America's decades-long "war on drugs," an expensive &amp; hypocritical folly which has essentially benefited only two classes of people: professional anti-drug advocates &amp; drug lords. Did you know that a presidential commission determined that marijuana is neither an addicitve substance nor a "stepping stone" to harder drugs only to have President Nixon shelve the embarrassing final report &amp; continue the government's policy of inflated drug addiction statistics? Did you know that several medical experts agree that cold turkey methods of withdrawal are essentially ineffective &amp; recommend simply prescribing drugs to addicts &amp; that communities in which this has been done report lower crime rates &amp; reduced unemployment among addicts as a result? Whether he's writing about the American government's strong-arm tactics toward critics of its drug policy or the reduction of countries like Colombia &amp; Mexico to anarchic killing zones by powerful cartels, Mike Gray's analysis has an immediacy &amp; clarity worth noting. The passage of medical marijuana bills in California &amp; Arizona (where it passed by a nearly 2-to-1 majority) indicates that people are getting fed up with the government's Prohibition-style tactics toward drugs. Drug Crazy just might speed that process along.
language: English
title: Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
titlecomplete: Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
genres: Sociology, Medical, History, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 254
publisher: Routledge