Title: Licit and illicit drugs
Description: This book by the publishers of Consumer Reports is the most informative book on drugs and addictions on the market.  Originally published in 1972, it documents in great detail not only the impact of drug use, but also the greater harms that arise from our efforts to Prohibit these drugs.  It as is if we never learned from the massive increase in crime and  and bloodshed from our disastrous thirteen year experience with Alcohol Prohibition.  

It has several chapters dedicated to  each drug from caffeine to heroin and amphetamines.  A must read for anyone who wishes to develop pragmatic solutions to America's drug use dilemma.    In almost every instance our policies dealing with illicit drug use CAUSE more harms than use of the drugs themselves.  

This should be required reading for every member of Congress.  It is amazing that so much of what we "know about drugs" is wrong.
Subjects: Drugs, Drug abuse, Physiological effect, Drug Legislation, Drug addiction, Narcotics, Toxicomanie, Drogues, Effets physiologiques, Substance-Related Disorders, Drug and Narcotic Control, Law and legislation, Drugs, physiological effect
Places: United States, États-Unis, Panama Canal, India
People: Harry Anslinger, Richard Nixon
Time periods: 1850 to 1972, but still very relevant to documenting the impact of drugs and drug policies.