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Ending the Global Drug War: Voices from the Front Lines
"Ever since the War on Drugs, everything has hit the fan," says Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner of India. Rather than continue the unneces...
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Comment by Petrus C. van Duyne on December 14, 2011 at 2:31pm -
For a history of the war on drugs and the related money: see: P.C. van Duyne and M. Levi, Drugs and Money, Routledge 2005.
We analysed the partly religious roots of this war and the way public opinion/fear images has been manipulated from the very start. This manipulation has continued till the present, now also including the fear of the drug money in such a way that discussions are often more a matter of belief and defence of vested institutional interests.
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Comment by Thomas Mankowski on December 14, 2011 at 1:28am -
Curious of people's thoughts here.
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