War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy - Paperback

by Alfred W. McCoy (Author)

Since George Bush declared his war on drugs in 1989, cocaine addiction in America has increased 15%, and narcotics have emerged as major commodities from the Third World. Focusing on US narcotics policy, Latin America's cocaine traffic and Asia's heroin trade, the essays in this book offer evidence indicating that the war is not working.