Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs - Antony Loewenstein Audiobook
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Like the never-ending war on terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won’t go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why.
The war on drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to best-selling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different parts of the world, the backing of dictatorships and surging drug addiction globally. And now the Trump administration is unleashing diplomatic and military forces against any softening of the conflict.
Pills, Powder, and Smoke investigates the individuals, officials, activists, victims, DEA agents and traffickers caught up in this deadly war. Travelling through the UK, the US, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines and Guinea-Bissau, Loewenstein uncovers the secrets of the drug war, why it’s so hard to end, and who is really profiting from it.
In reporting on the front lines across the globe - from the killing fields of Central America to major cocaine transit routes in West Africa - Loewenstein reveals how the war on drugs has become the most deadly war in modern times. Designed and inspired by Washington, its agenda has nothing to do with ending drug use or addiction but is all about controlling markets, territories and people. Instead, Loewenstein argues, the legalisation and regulation of all drugs would be a much more realistic and humane approach. The evidence presented in this book will persuade many listeners that he’s right.
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
July 9th, 2020
It never fails to amaze me how people like Loewenstein can think “the legalisation and regulation of all drugs would be a much more realistic and humane approach” could possibly end with good results.
What you’ll end up with is country where a good chunk of it’s citizens are zoned out of their minds, totally dependent on the government to take care of them.
Considering how today in the US, the cancel culture crowd is so willing to tear down anything that even hints of slavery, it’s ironic that so many embrace the concept of volunteered slavery so readily.
July 9th, 2020
TotallyDisenfranchised - When participating in civil discourse on a controversial topic, it is normally considered good practice to respond to the arguments of those with whom you disagree, rather than simply assuming they desire the worst possible outcomes. If you did this on the issue of legalizing drugs, your comment might seem a bit less silly to those who read it.
July 9th, 2020
Harper - thank you for the civil posting.
I’m fairly confident that Loewenstein doesn’t desire the worst possible outcome, but that’s what will result if all drugs were as readily available as alcohol.
I suggest you check out the addiction rate to heroin, opiods, crystal meth, and fentanyl sometime. Also, check out the relapse rates while your at it too.
The whole concept of all drugs being legal is ludicrous unless you want to hear “Would you like some Narcon with that order?”.
I’m sorry, I know I’m pessimistic, but considering American society hasn’t evolved enough to handle something as simple as race relations, can you honestly tell me it would be able to handle the physical & psychological effects of addiction, over-dosing, health issues, and physical injury caused to the users and to others?
Our systems are already overburdened with the limited amount of habitual drug users we have, now give them free reign to indulge themselves. Do you honestly believe that number is going to drop?
I tell you what, try this, if you drink alcoholic beverages or smoke. Stop right now! Don’t substitute them for something else, like drinking soda or chewing gum. Go strictly cold turkey!
If alcohol or cigarettes aren’t your vice (good for you) whatever it is, stop doing whatever it is that you do that takes the “edge” off.
Do that for a month, and then get to me, or better yet be real gutsy and give up your vice for a year. Seriously, post back on August 9th, and let us know on how you felt.
July 10th, 2020
If you look at other country’s who have legalized all drugs. They have the lowest OD rate and the lowest rehab visits. Just look at teen use with legal cannabis here in the US. Teen use is down 25% in most states that have legal cannabis. This is proven to work. Its like single payer health care. Its more then proven but the far right will have you believe it will bankrupt the country. It hasn’t bankrupted one country that has it. Well the same is true for legalizing all drugs. This doesn’t mean make it available to every one. You cant go buy crack at the local store. What it does is take away the criminal aspect of it. Instead of getting arrested and have to to go to court and then possibly jail. You go straight to treatment. Please don’t be foolish and believe everything the far right says. Its the same with defund the police. Even Joe Biden came out against it. Which shows his ignorance twords it. It doesn’t mean to shut the police down and take away all there funding. What it does is defunds most of their aggressive training programs and replaces it with proven social training programs for police to handle possible domestic violence situations more compassionately. So I say Legalize all Drugs the sooner the better. Lets stop punishing and start treating the problem. If that’s something you can wrap your head around your probably part of the Drumpf cult.
July 10th, 2020
I’m 12 years sober. I’m green and clean. meaning i used cannabis to get clean. I fully support taking the criminal aspect out of drugs and ending the racist drug war. to legalize all drugs does not mean to make them available. It means to stop putting people in jail and ruining there lives. Instead you focus on treatment. This has worked in every country that has implemented it.
July 10th, 2020
JUST GOOGLE PORTUGAL IF YOU THINK LEGALIZING ALL DRUGS DOESN’T WORK.
July 10th, 2020
Thank you
July 10th, 2020
@bdh420, Portugal didn’t legalize drug use, they decriminalized it. There is a distinct difference. People (users) caught in possession are subject to fines, license to practice suspensions, restrictions to clubs/foreign travel, mandatory reporting to review boards, mandatory testing, cessation of subsidies or allowances that a person receives from a public agency of, and/or mandatory treatment. Drug traffickers and dealers are still subject to criminal punishments.
That’s in a population of only 10 million that already has the socialized medical programs to met the needs, compared to 320 million in the United States with doesn’t have the socialized medical programs.
Yes, their users don’t go to jail, but the government can still f…up their lives quite easily.
Congratulations on being sober for 12 years. While I don’t mean to be condescending, don’t you think it’s time to give up the weed too? Why substitute one addition for another (admittedly arguably less additive drug)?
July 13th, 2020
You can tell someone believed all they were told.
We tax drugs and focus on rehabilitation things would change. Remove the social stigma, like alcohol and weed in many states now.
People will use whether or not you want them to. Open your perspective and see that’s humans have used mind altering drugs all throughout our evolution. Sex could be considered a mind altering drugs.
Why’s one better than the other? take coffee, booze, Advil, that Flexeril, the antidepressants; they all alter state of mind. Are you going to change your habits when other drugs are legal or decriminalized. No, then calm down and hold on the world is changing.
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