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The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 (Hardcover, New)
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The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 (Hardcover, New)
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The Drug Wars in America, 1940 1973 argues that the U.S. government
has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures,
because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were
never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first
place. Instead, Kathleen J. Frydl shows that the shift from
regulating illicit drugs through taxes and tariffs to criminalizing
the drug trade developed from, and was marked by, other dilemmas of
governance in an age of vastly expanding state power. Most believe
the drug war was inaugurated by President Richard Nixon's
declaration of a war on drugs in 1971, but in fact his announcement
heralded changes that had taken place in the two decades prior.
Frydl examines this critical interval of time between regulation
and prohibition, demonstrating that the war on drugs advanced
certain state agendas, such as policing inner cities or exercising
power abroad. Although this refashioned approach mechanically
solved some vexing problems of state power, it endowed the country
with a cumbersome and costly war that drains resources and degrades
important aspects of the American legal and political tradition."
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