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Chargement... Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugspar Johann Hari
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An account of the war on drugs, its casualties and its solution. Anecdotal style is gripping but takes a lot of pages, it could be laid out as an essay with headings. Its not obvious from the chapter headings what they are about. But the case seems well made that the war on drugs has been as harmful as prohibition was. Eventually gets on to the idea that they are uniquely gripping, not for most people, and most get off happily enough. Various places are decriminalizing them and some legalizing them. Colorado legalized marijuana cos its less harmful than alcohol Washington because legislating against it caused too much trouble. Needs to be global consensus on this before the war can end. Well referenced and indexed.
Hari affirms the role he has already established for himself: a crucial voice in, as well as commentator on, the urgent cause of not merely “reforming” the way society deals with the drugs crisis but tearing it up completely – and either starting again along an entirely different track, or else becoming overwhelmed by the eventually inevitable mass addiction of the new wage-slaves, the global assembly plant and lumpen proletariats, to hard drugs. Prix et récompenses
"January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through the theater of this war--to find out how it began, how it has affected people around the world, and how we can move beyond it. Chasing the Scream is fueled by dramatic personal stories of the people he meets along the way: A transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed her mother, and a mother in Mexico who spent years tracking her daughter's murderer across the desert. A child smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust who helped unlock the scientific secrets of addiction. A doctor who pushed the decriminalization in Portugal of all drugs - from cannabis to crack. The title itself comes from a formative story of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, sent as a boy to the pharmacy for a neighbor screaming in withdrawal -- an experience which led him to fear drugs without regard to context. Always we come back to the front lines in the U.S., where we instigated the war and exported it around the globe, but where change is also coming. Powerful, propulsive, and persuasive, Chasing the Scream is the page-turning story of a century-long mistake, which shows us the way to a more humane future"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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... sure, the author investigates real life case studies, but... that's the nature of case studies, if you were to pick five "life stories" out of the about 350 million adult persons living in North America, you could, literally, "prove" anything you wanted.
Does everyone who shoots heroin become addicted? Maybe, maybe not, maybe the chemical hooks are only 17% of the problem, but I somehow doubt it.
Would the cartels go "bankrupt" if drugs were legalized? Maybe, maybe not, but is it realistic to think a society can make hard drugs accessible and not have youths become addicted? I doubt it. Youths do all sorts of stupid things, and if heroin were to be "normalized", more people would do it. And more people would be hooked, and more lives would be ruined.
Is locking addicts up the solution? Probably not.
What is the answer? There are no solutions offered here, just some things for us to think about. ( )