Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State10 reviews
Richard Lawrence Miller

Praeger Trade, 1996

Now that I've read this book, I want to burn a flag.

+ Chilling and essential
+ Read this because...
+ An anomaly in Drug War Policy literature, and that's good...
+ One of the most powerful books that you will ever read.
  
  











  



  
Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA28 reviews
Terry Reed, John Cummings

S.P.I. Books, 1994

Amazing Book

+ Deep Politics in the Flesh
+ A mixed bag
+ The C Word
+ Mr. Reed nails it between the uprights!
  
  











  



  
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press33 reviews
Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair

Verso, 1999

CIA is more fascist that you may think

+ an important book
+ Itýs the Liberal Media, Stupid!
+ Wake up and smell the open border!
  
  











  



  
The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA5 reviews
Jonathan Kwitny

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987

How the U.S. brought down Australia's government in 1975

+ The "Company" and the bank.
+ While you were looking at El Salvador . . .
+ Very fine Kwitney book about Drugs, Nuganhand Bank and US Govt high up corruption
+ YOU BE THE JUDGE
  
  











  



  
Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina9 reviews
Peter Dale Scott

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003

Superb study of US state's use of mercenary drug-runners

+ very good
+ Shocking material in a chewy read
+ Parapolitics metastasize into deep politics
+ Essential reading
  
  











  



  
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do : The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country92 reviews
Peter McWilliams

Prelude Press, 1996

If you read one book on the subject...

+ Great book!
+ Devastating indictment of the state's assault on personal freedom
+ One of the greatest books ever written
  
  











  



  
The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States (Drug Policy Classic ...2 reviews
Richard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread

Lindesmith Center, 1999

A Complete History of U.S. Prohibition

+ STILL BRILLIANT

This is the most comprehensive look at marijuana and drug prohibition available! It was written by members of Nixons very own committee delegated to the task of researching marijuana, it's history, effects, and whether the drug policy at the time was a sensible one. They found that it was not, ...
  
  











  



  
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure22 reviews
Dan Baum

Back Bay Books, 1997

One of the most important books ever published. Excellent writing, and a very easy read..

+ the real dope, and some real dopes
+ AWSOME!
+ A great book!!
+ The War on Drugs? An Abysmal Failure
  
  











  



  
In Banks We Trust1 review
Penny Lernoux

Anchor Books, 1984

IN RESPONSE TO THE POPE'S APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION LET US REVIEW THE HISTORY OF THE THEOLOGY OF ECONOMICS

In his recent Postsynodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramento de La Caridad: Sacramentum Caritatis, Our Holy Father and Supreme Pontiff Pope Benedict XVI exhorts us who receive Holy Communion that the Eucharist compels us to alter the unjust economic structures whic leave a very few superwealthy and ...
  
  











  



  
Drug Crazy : How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out66 reviews
Mike Gray

Routledge, 2000

Dealing with Our Addiction

+ Everyone Should Read This Book!
+ Sanity in sight
+ best review of the drug war I've seen
+ Drug War: The History and Politics of Failure
  
  











  



  
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond37 reviews
Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain

Grove Press, 1994

EXCELLENT

+ A Fascinating History of LSD and the Sixties.
+ Beyond is Right- This book it GREAT
+ Top End Data
+ awesome!
  
  











  



  
MKULTRA : The CIA's Top Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification1 review
George Andrews

Healthnet Pr, 2001

MK-Ultra Research Material

This book isn't written in the entertaining journalistic fashion one might expect from an author such as Jim Marrs, but the information provided is useful. There are congressional documents on the MK-Ultra research with emphasis on human testing. For more in depth information, Bluebird by Dr. Colin ...
  
  











  



  
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs2 reviews
Douglas Valentine

Verso, 2006

Important but little known history

+ Critical historical context for the War on Drugs

Based on exhaustive research and interviews, this detailed and extensively footnoted history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics is both a fine reference work for scholars, and an eye-opening, exciting narrative for the general reader. The book itself is the highest quality, made to last for ...
  
  











  



  
The Enemy Is Us: How to Defeat Drug Abuse and End the "War on Drugs"
Robert H. Dowd

Hefty Press, 1997

"The Enemy Is Us" is a critical analysis of the United States' War on Drugs to enforce prohibition. The author makes a cogent case for control of drugs by returning to a legal, state-regulated, private-sector drug market as existed before Prohibition. He focuses on the facts of history to justify his position and to identify the bureaucratic blunders that led to drug prohibition. Few Americans ...
  
  











  



  
The Mafia, CIA and George Bush10 reviews
Pete Brewton

S.P.I. Books, 1992

No Surprises Here

+ Real Journalism
+ This book has come of age
+ Treasure trove of dirt on the Bushes
  
  











  



  
The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace14 reviews
James Mills

Dell, 1987

Government Crime Pays Very Very Well

+ How to Destabilize the International Economy without even trying
+ A fantastically well written and informative book
+ The most intellectual and realistic book on illegal drugs
+ The best book written so far on illegal drugs in America!
  
  











  



  
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control13 reviews
John D. Marks

W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

The CIA's Experiments in Mind Control.

+ The historical background of the 'Manchurian Candidate'
+ Required reading for every American
+ A Classic !
+ Truth Outpaces Fiction Every Time
  
  











  



  
Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market4 reviews
Thomas Stephen Szasz

Syracuse University Press, 1996

On Having the Freedom to Change Your Mind

+ A Supremely Courageous, Truthful, and Useful Book
+ Good philosophical arguments, but politically naive
+ Truly Excellent
  
  











  



  
Operation Mind Control8 reviews
Bowart

Dell Publishing, 1978

Why Operation Mind Control disappeared

+ Operation Mind Control
+ Classic 2 line review
+ Cogito Ergo Sum
+ for those wanting more than a 2-line review
  
  











  



  
Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers4 reviews
Thomas Szasz

Anchor Press, 1974

ceremonial chemistry

+ Ceremonial Chemistry Review
+ really neet.
+ Institutionalized and state-sponsored persecution