This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
Autor Ryan Grimen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 sep 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780470643891
ISBN-10: 0470643897
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 148 x 227 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Wiley (TP)
Colecția John Wiley &Sons
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
ISBN-10: 0470643897
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 148 x 227 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Wiley (TP)
Colecția John Wiley &Sons
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
Public țintă
Exposes about America′s sordid relationship with drugs have a steady readership, and frequently sell 20–50,000 copies. This book, though has a lot more to offer than the usual pro–legalization arguments, or recounting of what we′ve spent killing poppy plants in Colombia and Afghanistan. THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY ON DRUGS looks at the War on Drugs from every angle, bring surprising new views on nearly every aspect of America′s habit.Descriere
"A cornucopia of unconventional wisdom about our relationship to mind–altering substances." — Laura Miller , Salon.com "A compulsively readable and revealing history of our torturous relationship to drugs." — Christopher Hayes , Washington Editor, The Nation "Astonishingly clear–headed and well–written, as if someone had taken David Courtwright and added just a splash of Hunter Thompson." — Mark Kleiman , TPMCafé "A wide–ranging, fascinating romp through the history of America′s insatiable appetite for all manner of drugs, from opium to crystal meth, all the way up to the possibly soon–to–be–illegal hallucinogen Salvia divinorum. " — Philadelphia City Paper Did anti–drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak decades ago? Did our founding fathers—or their wives—get high just as much as we do? As entertaining as it is informative, This Is Your Country on Drugs goes far beyond the usual "war on drugs" manifestos or reference books to bring a fresh perspective that will both enlighten the uninitiated and surprise the expert (however you define the term). Even–handed without being neutral, Grim brings more to the table than past histories by covering the who and the what so he can get to the why. Not only does Grim derive surprising conclusions from looking at consumption patterns throughout eras, he chronicles America′s romance with getting high from founding father Benjamin Rush telling Lewis and Clark to bring along eight ounces of Turkish opium and thirty gallons of "medicinal wine," to today′s teenagers, who spend so much time alone online that they do far fewer drugs than any of their predecessors.
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"A cornucopia of unconventional wisdom about our relationship to mind–altering substances." — Laura Miller , Salon.com "A compulsively readable and revealing history of our torturous relationship to drugs." — Christopher Hayes , Washington Editor, The Nation "Astonishingly clear–headed and well–written, as if someone had taken David Courtwright and added just a splash of Hunter Thompson." — Mark Kleiman , TPMCafé "A wide–ranging, fascinating romp through the history of America′s insatiable appetite for all manner of drugs, from opium to crystal meth, all the way up to the possibly soon–to–be–illegal hallucinogen Salvia divinorum. " — Philadelphia City Paper Did anti–drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak decades ago? Did our founding fathers—or their wives—get high just as much as we do? As entertaining as it is informative, This Is Your Country on Drugs goes far beyond the usual "war on drugs" manifestos or reference books to bring a fresh perspective that will both enlighten the uninitiated and surprise the expert (however you define the term). Even–handed without being neutral, Grim brings more to the table than past histories by covering the who and the what so he can get to the why. Not only does Grim derive surprising conclusions from looking at consumption patterns throughout eras, he chronicles America′s romance with getting high from founding father Benjamin Rush telling Lewis and Clark to bring along eight ounces of Turkish opium and thirty gallons of "medicinal wine," to today′s teenagers, who spend so much time alone online that they do far fewer drugs than any of their predecessors.
Cuprins
1. The Acid Casualty. 2. A Pharmacopoeia Utopia. 3. Prohibition, Inc. 4. America′s Little Helper. 5. New Coke. 6. D.A.R.E. to Be Different. 7. Border Justice. 8. Kids Today. 9. YouTrip. 10. Blowback. 11. Conflicts of Interest. 12. Puff, Puff, Live. 13. Cat and Mouse. 14. Acid Redux. Acknowledgments. Notes. Index.
Notă biografică
RYAN GRIM is the Huffington Post ′s senior congressional correspondent and has written for Slate , Rolling Stone , Harper′s , and the Washington Post .
Recenzii
Admitting that “so much has been written on drug use and American culture that it would take weeks to roll all of that paper up and smoke it,” journalist Grim plunges into the counterculture, the literature, the research, the opposition, the pharmaceutical interests, the media coverage, the kids and users, the heroes and the hypocrites to chart the evolution of drug use in America, covering every illegal high, taking on well–entrenched myths and turning up fascinating stories on current trends—beginning with the end of LSD. Backed by plenty of startling facts (i.e., 1984′s drug–related criminal population was 30,000; by 1991 it was more than 150,000), Grim fashions a sharp critique of anti–drug programs (“exposure to [anti–drug] ads led to higher rates of first–time drug use among certain groups, such as fourteen–to–sixteen year olds and whites”) and other policy decisions (President Clinton′s approval of NAFTA led to an unprecedented influx of drugs across the Mexican border). Grim isn′t all talk, however: he barely survives on–site research during drug riots in Bolivia, goes through a typically fraught trip on ayahuasca, and scouts the battlefields of the fight to legalize cannabis (“In San Francisco, pot clubs quickly outnumbered McDonald’s franchises”). This lively, personable history should strike fans of Martin Torgoff’s Can’t Find My Way Home as a worthy follow–up. (July) ( Publishers Weekly , July 27, 2009) "One of the theses of This Is Your Country on Drugs –– a cornucopia of unconventional wisdom about our relationship to mind–altering substances –– is that the popularity of drugs waxes and wanes according to a complex sum of factors." ( salon.com , July 20, 2009) "Mark Kleiman calls it "Atonishingly clear–headed and well–written, as if someone had taken David Courtwright and added just a splash of Hunter Thompson." (Mark Klieman, T PMCafe ) "A wide–ranging, fascinating romp through the history of America′s insatiable appetite for all manner of drugs, from opium to crystal meth, all the way up to the possibly soon–to–be–illegal hallucinogen Salvia divinorum." (The Philadelphia City Paper )