An excellent history-lesson for non-Americans as well

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	• Drug Crazy : How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out Mike Gray Routledge, 2000 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 66 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An excellent history-lesson for non-Americans as well

Adding to the praise submitted by the other readers I wish to point out that this book is also of great relevance to people outside US engaged in the quest for a more sane global society. Although, as Mr. Gray points out, the situation is somewhat better in some European countries, I must add that in many cases it is not. Here in Norway we have blindly adopted the US policy on drugs, and we are now paying the price. Comparing our alarmingly high death-rate among heroin-users in Oslo with numbers from Amsterdam or other big European cities practising a more humane policy towards drug-users, only serves to confirm Mr. Gray's reflections and facts about the futility of the "Holy Crusade" against drugs and its users.

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Drug Crazy -read and be ENLIGHTENED!

I have always wondered why the subject of drug use, addiction and legalization of drug use in the United States has been so polarized. In my years of experimenting with drugs such as Marijuana, amphetamines etc. I learned there are obvious reasons to use caution in the use of all drugs,whether street or legal ones. I find it interesting that all the attention from the press and govenment is always focused on the illegal street drugs and users, yet statistical facts bear out the reality that prescription drug addicts out number street addicts by a hugh margin. I find the book DRUG CRAZY, to be a breath of fresh air and sanity, documenting the real story of the genesis of drug laws and attitudes in this country. Any law that is legislated and enforced based on lies, manipulation of facts is not a law that belongs in a Republic such as ours. Mr. Gray has done an outstanding job in researching the actual documented history of drugs in america. I do not advocate the use of drugs for anyone, especially our youth, that is a personal decision made by free individuals who must take personal responsibility for that decision based on a study of the facts of each drug. This cannot be done if those facts are distorted or deleted from view. If you are confused by all the claims made by those who advocate the WAR ON DRUGS then please, please read this book. Your jaw will drop open when you find out how our present drug laws have come about.

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Learning from the lessons of history

Those who forget the mistakes of history are condemned to repeat them, and unfortunately the disaster of alcohol Prohibition in the 1920s occurred too long ago for most of us to remember it. Fortunately, Drug Crazy builds a bridge to that time, from whose lessons we can draw guidance today. That the Prohibition experiment (which was at least started and ended democratically, with Constitutional amendments) caused so much damage--especially crime, including the highest murder rate in US history--is a tragedy, but that we have not learned from that tragic experiment and are repeating the mistake on an even greater scale...that is indeed a crime. Drug Crazy goes on to trace the tragicomic escalation of the Drug War from its racist origins to its current heights of madness. This well-researched book is highly recommended for understanding how self-righteous and self-serving bureaucrats got us into the Drug War, and how we can get ourselves out.

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The War on Drugs: Power, Race, and Money!

This book is an excellent companion to Smoke and Mirrors : The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure, by Dan Baum. While Baum's history of the Drug War starts with the Nixon administration and focuses on the domestic consequences, Mike Gray's history lesson goes back to Harry Anslinger, who headed the Bureau of Narcotics (the precursor to the DEA) for decades and engineered mountains of bogus evidence about the national "drug problem" in order to build and sustain his empire. Gray examines the history of alcohol prohibition as well as the horrific effect that the Drug War has had in South and Central America.

Both Baum and Gray spotlight the soaring prison population and the shattered lives of drug war prisoners. Gray's book illustrates the shear impossibility of an interdiction based approach by pointing out that the ports of entry are countless and border guards can double their yearly incomes by turning a blind eye for two minutes.

Mike Gray wrote the screenplay for The China Syndrome, and he brings his talents as a story teller to this project, which makes it extremely readable.

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Anti-Drug or Pro-Drug Read This Book

A profound account of how the current drug enforcement system came into being in the United States and how our prohibition laws are now being forced upon the rest of the world. By placing current laws in historical contexts, citizens can finally see what is really going on and hopefully find their voice on this issue when talking with their representatives in Washington D.C. In addition to providing historical background, and options for fixing the problem, the text provides compelling comparisons to violence and crime rates between now and the years of Alcohol prohibition. The United States is now (FY2000) planning on spending $17.8 billion (your tax dollars) a year on this war - you better findout what that money is going for - and how it may be eroding our Bill of Rights.

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