Foster The Long War on Drugs

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2755-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Anne L. Foster provides a comprehensive overview of the “war on drugs,” its failures and continued appeal, and the international consequences of US drug policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, Anne L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The Meaning of Drugs 1
1. The Many Uses of Drugs 5
Part I. The Battle for Prohibition, 1870–1940 15
2. Identifying the Problem 19
3. Deciding on Prohibition 31
4. International Conferences 42
5. Changing Practice and Policy in Medicine and Public Health 55
Part II. To a Declaration of a War on Drugs, 1940–1980 67
6. Opportunities of World War II and Its Aftermath 71
7. US Laws and International Conventions 82
8. Who Is Using? 96
9. War on Drugs Declared 109
Part III. Blurring the Lines, 1980–Present 123
10. Mandatory Minimums 127
11. Environmental Effects of the War on Drugs 139
12. Marijuana’s Different Path 152
13. New Challenges to the War on Drugs 164
Conclusion. Never-Ending War on Drugs? 175
Glossary 179
Notes 181
Suggestions for Further Reading 193
Index 199

Über Autor(innen)

Anne L. Foster is Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University, author of Projections of Power: The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941, and coeditor of The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives, both also published by Duke University Press.