Drugs, Power, and Politics: Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the Subversion of Democracy

by Carl Boggs

Book Overview

This book explores the increasingly broad terrain of drugs in American society with an emphasis on politics. It begins with the War on Drugs initiated by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s and extends to the current day with the vast power of the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma), expansion of global criminal syndicates, militarization of the drug war, and struggles between states and federal government over the legalization of marijuana...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161205871X
• ISBN13: 9781612058719
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"