{"product_id":"the-war-on-drugs-a-history-9781479811366","title":"The War on Drugs: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revealing look at the history and legacy of the \"War on Drugs\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a \"War on Drugs,\" the United States government has spent over 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a rare multi-faceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, \u003ci\u003eThe War on Drugs: A History \u003c\/i\u003eexamines 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 life-line as players in a remunerative transnational supply and distribution network of illicit drugs. While several essays demonstrate how government enforcement of drug laws disproportionately punished marginalized suppliers and users, other essays assess how anti-drug warriors denigrated science and medical expertise by encouraging moral panics that contributed to the blanket criminalization of certain drugs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy analyzing the key issues, debates, events, and actors surrounding the War on Drugs, this timely and impressive volume provides a deeper understanding of the role these policies have played in making our current political landscape and how we can find the way forward to a more just and humane drug policy regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Farber\u003c\/b\u003e, the Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, has published numerous books on recent United States history, including \u003ci\u003eThe War on Drugs\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU Press, 2021), \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Great Dream: America in the 1960s \u003c\/i\u003e(Hill and Wang 1994), \u003ci\u003e Sloan Rules \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Chicago Press 2005), \u003ci\u003e Crack \u003c\/i\u003e(Cambridge 2019), \u003ci\u003e The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism \u003c\/i\u003e(Princeton, 2010), \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTaken Hostage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50512237166866,"sku":"9781479811366","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_db5907f2-7422-4133-bc1b-45dbc8bca04a.jpg?v=1730950462","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-war-on-drugs-a-history-9781479811366","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}