The War on Drugs: A History - Edited by David Farber
Shared by:daenigma100
Written by
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
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.
| Announce URL: | udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | http://googer.cc:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | http://open.acgnxtracker.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker2.dler.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://opentor.org:2710/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.dler.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.tiny-vps.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce |
| Creation Date: | Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:01:01 +0100 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| David Farber (editor) - The War on Drugs Audiobook.mp3 335.45 MBs | |
| File Size: | 335.45 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 512 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by AudioBook Bay |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| Info Hash: | bcfac190268b6750b5453feb74507d6f64fc698d |
| Torrent Download | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips | Sometimes the torrent health info isn’t accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download | Start Direct Download |
| Tips | You could try out alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download | Download Files Now |
| Ad |
|
This post has 11 comments with rating of 5/5
December 26th, 2021
Just more lies from our government. Don’t do drugs or you will be imprisoned. Well now you can do drugs as long as you cut us in (taxes). Masks are just for show. Wait…You now MUST wear masks because they ‘protect’ you. You must get a vaccine because masks somehow don’t work anymore. Wait…change 14…You MUST wear masks because vaccines don’t work. If you don’t get a vaccine, you will be fired. On and on and on. LGB
December 26th, 2021
I’m not a specialist, so I can’t make my own judgement on this matter, at some point I came across this professional opinion, which I then deemed important (recalling the meaning from memory):
‘Those who tried marijuana before the age of 18, even a limited number of times, essentially can wave the subsequent development of their higher brain functions goodbye’.
Again, I have no idea whether or not it is true (just very troubling, if it is).
December 26th, 2021
@alnilam I’m not a specialist, but I think you are a liar and you are trying to deceive us!
Again, I have no idea whether or not it is true (just very troubling, if it is).
Here is the truth: Any drug may or may not change the developing brain in a negative way. This includes nicotine and ethanol.
Now, let’s add some anecdotal “evidence”: In school, I saw many 14-year-olds get drunk and smoke (nicotine). Marijuana didn’t show up before 17 or 18 years of age. By then, marijuana was used sporadically by certain people. Alcohol was used often, and by most. Nicotine was used by some, and they were addicted to it.
December 26th, 2021
If only there were a war on stupid.
More essential reading daenigma100.
December 26th, 2021
Well, speaking of trolls disregarding disclaimers, either I’m a liar, and so people may enjoy their marijuana from the young age without risk of dire consequences some years down the line (like hitting an invisible, impenetrable mental wall) — or maybe I’m not one, and then those who habitually enjoy their marijuana from the young age may live to regret it — it’s still 50-50% probability, and not 100%
December 26th, 2021
I have a better probability for you: 35-65%
And … wait! There are more!!! 5-95%, 80-20%, 99-1% & 40-60%.
The point I tried to make, dear alnilam: When your knowledge about a certain topic is … lacking … refrain from spreading your ignorance of said topic.
The book is about politics. No one wants/advocates children to do drugs. You were the one bringing up something completely off-topic. I wonder why … ;-)
December 27th, 2021
@alnilam: “it’s still 50-50%”
Really? You have no idea if it’s true, so you arbitrarily state it’s 50-50, and we should take it seriously?
This ths same language used to justify voter suppression because of doubts about “voting integrity”.
I guess you saw “Reefer Madness” at an impressionable age.
December 27th, 2021
This must be a fresh batch of trolls, it seems the hapless sods are still trying to find their bearings. Apparently, the implication is that I want one of two things happen to those naive fellow members, who would disregard the disclaimer, take my words at face value and start changing their lives immediately along the lines as follows:
(i) I want their higher brain functions developed in the future
(ii) I do not want their higher brain functions developed in the future
So, which is it — the former, or the latter? Or something else?
December 27th, 2021
@Gweilo
I did not see your comment at the time of posting mine.
December 27th, 2021
@Gweilo
It is my prerogative to state whatever I wanted to state. And, incidentally, it does not prevent anyone from making their own judgement on the matter.
July 10th, 2022
Thank you kindly
Add a comment (please log in before commenting)