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Snow Job - The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking (Paperback)
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Snow Job - The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking (Paperback)
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Cocaine has had a long and prominent position in the history of
American substance abuse. As far back as the late 1800s cocaine was
commonly found hi patent medicines, elixirs, and, astonishingly, in
the earliest versions of Coca-Cola. Eventually, the potency of
cocaine was recognized and its purveyors came under gradual
regulation. Events hi the early 1900s kept cocaine use down until
World War II, but the extensive drug use of the 1960s once again
sparked a national temperance movement. Created in 1989, the Office
of National Drug Control Policy maintains responsibility for
coordinating and monitoring the nation's countemarcotics policy.
But responsibility for coordination and monitoring is not the same
thing as control. In Snow Job? Kevin Jack Riley examines source
country control policies policies intended to control the
production and export of cocaine from Latin America and their
limitations. Part I draws together drug use, drug production, and
drug control policies hi an analytic framework. It goes on to
examine the recent history of U.S. drug control policies, source
country control policies, the ways hi which cocaine prices affect
cocaine use, how cocaine is made, and the vulnerable points in its
production. Part II examines the economic effects that production
and controls exert on the sources of cocaine Bolivia and Peru and
probes the Colombian drug lord connection. Part III prescribes an
appropriate path for source country cocaine policies and examines
their implications for two other widely smuggled drugs, heroin and
marijuana. Riley disagrees with analysts who believe that source
country control policies can lead to permanent victory hi the war
against cocaine, because of the potentially high costs associated
with implementing source country control policies on a large scale.
He suggests a better strategy would be one that recognizes the
severe limits facing interdiction, eradication, and other source
country policies, and instead focuses on directing source country
resources where they will be most useful. This necessitates
defining a regional strategy that elevates political stability and
institution building, and demotes traditional countemarcotics
objectives. Snow Job? offers original thinking and practical
approaches to a multidimensional world problem and will be of
interest to policymakers, political scientists, sociologists, and
law enforcement officials.
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