Dope War Bibliography

 

Some references entirely or largely about the Dope Wars are grouped here. Many others treat the war in passing, in the larger context of drug usage. Please see the Resources page (under construction) for an annotated listing of these and other sources.

 

Rick Abraham. The Dirty Truth: The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush. Mainstream Publishers, Houston, 2000.

 

Caroline Jean Acker. Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002.

 

George Andrews. MKULTRA: The CIA's Top-Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification. Healthnet Press, Winston-Salem NC, 2001.

 

Dan Baum. Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. Little, Brown, New York, 1996.

 

Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer, eds. Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free Society. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.

 

Will Berger. “Just Another Colombian Prison Morning,” High Times, March-April 2004.

 

Eva Bertram, ed. Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996.

 

Peter Brewton. The Mafia, the CIA, and George Bush. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992.

 

Noam Chomsky. An American Addiction—Drugs, Guerillas, Counterinsurgency: U.S. Intervention in Colombia. CD-ROM by AK Press, Oakland, and Alternative Tentacles Records, San Francisco, 2001.

 

Christic Institute and nine authors and illustrators. Brought to Light: 30 Years of Drug Smuggling, Arms Deals and Covert Operations That Robbed America and Betrayed the Constitution. Titan Books, London, 1989.

 

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press. Verso Books, New York, 1999.

 

David Cole. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System. The New Press, New York, 1999.

 

Alex Constantine. Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America. Feral House, Los Angeles, 1997.

 

David T. Courtright. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2002.

 

Richard Davenport-Hines. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. Norton, New York, 2002.

 

Rachel Ehrenfeld. Evil Money: Encounters Along the Money Trail. HarperCollins, New York 1992. Revised edition: Evil Money: The Inside Story of Money Laundering and Corruption in Government Banks and Business. SPI Books, New York, 1994.

 

Rachel Ehrenfeld. Narco-Terrorism. Basic Books, New York, 1990.

 

Dirk Chase Eldredge. Ending the War on Drugs: A Solution for America. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2000.

 

Antonio Escohotado. A Brief History of Drugs: From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age. Inner Traditions International, Rochester VT, 1999.

 

Ross Firestone, ed. Getting Busted: Personal Experiences of Arrest, Trial, and Prison. World, New York, 1970.

 

Paul M. Gahlinger. Illegal Drugs: A Complete Guide to Their History, Chemistry, Use and Abuse. Sagebrush Press, Las Vegas, 2001.

 

James P. Gray. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2001.

 

Mike Gray. Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. Routledge, New York, 2000.

 

Mike Gray, ed. Busted: Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington’s War on Drugs. Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 2002.

 

Ronald Hamowy, ed. Dealing with Drugs: Consequences of Government Control. Laissez Faire Books, Center for Independent Thought, San Francisco, 1987.

 

John Helmer. Drugs and Minority Suppression. Seabury Press, New York, 1976.

 

Jack Herer, et al. The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana, 11th edition. Quick American Publishing Co., 2000.

 

Karen Hoffman and Becky Stewart. The Tallahassee Project: A Glimpse Inside the Shattered Lives of 100 Non-Violent Women Prisoners of the War on Drugs. Committee on Unjust Sentencing, 2001. Copies and updates available at www.drugwarprisoners.org/tallproj.htm.

 

James A. Inciardi and Karen McElrath, eds. The American Drug Scene: An Anthology. Roxbury Pub. Co., Los Angeles, 2000.

 

Henrik Kruger. The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism. Black Rose Books, Montreal, 2000.

 

Jonathan Kwitny. Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA. Bookthrift Co., London, 1990.

 

Michael Levine. Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War. Delacorte Press, New York, 1990. Revised edition: World Publications, New York, 1994.

 

Michael Levine and Laura Cavanau-Levine. The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic. Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1993.

 

Timothy Lynch, ed. After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies. The Cato Institute, Washington DC, 2002.

 

Ron Mann, director. Grass. Documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson. Animations by Paul Mavrides. Unapix Films, New York, 2000.

 

John Marks. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. Times Books, New York, 1979.

 

Jonathan Marshall. Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third World. Cohan & Cohen, Forestville CA, 1991.

 

Michael Massing. The Fix. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998. Revised edition: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

 

Robert J. MacCoun, et al. Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.

 

Alfred W. McCoy, with Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adam II. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. Harper & Row, New York, 1972. Revised edition: Alfred W. McCoy. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. Lawrence Hill, Westport CT, 2003.

 

Peter McWilliams. Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Society. Prelude Press, 8159 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90046, 1994.

 

Tod H. Mikuriya, ed. Excerpts from the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report, with Centennial Thoughts on Indian Hemp and the Dope Fiends of Old England. Last Gasp, P.O. Box 410067, San Francisco, 1994.

 

Richard Lawrence Miller. Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State. Praeger/Greenwood, Westport CT, 1996.

 

James Mills. Underground Empire. Doubleday, New York, 1986.

 

David F. Musto. The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control. Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 1986.

 

David F. Musto. One Hundred Years of Heroin. Auburn House, Westport CT, 2002.

 

David F. Musto, ed. Drugs in America: A Documentary History. New York University Press, New York, 2002.

 

National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. Marihuana, a Signal of Misunderstanding. Signet/New American Library, New York, 1972.

 

Mikki Norris, Virginia Resner, Chris Conrad, R.U. Sirius. Shattered Lives: Portraits from America’s Drug War. Creative Xpressions, Los Angeles, 1998.

 

Sadie Plant. Writing on Drugs. Faber & Faber, 1999, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001.

 

Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine, eds. Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.

 

Richard Rudgley and John Erda, eds. Essential Substances: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society. Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1995.

 

Peter Dale Scott. Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2003.

 

Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall. Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998.

 

Elaine Shannon. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win. Viking, New York, 1988.

 

Neal Smith. “Occupied America: A Chronology of Nazi Infiltration and the War on Some Drugs,” 2000, www.serendipity.li/wod/nsmith_chron.htm.

 

Steven Soderbergh, director, Simon Moore and Stephen Gaghan, writers. Traffic. 2000.

 

Rodney Stich. Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies, 3rd ed. Diablo Western Press, Alamo CA, 1998.

 

Rodney Stich. Drugging America: A Trojan Horse. Diablo Western Press, Alamo CA, 1999.

 

Jonathan Stuart. New Prohibition: A Musical History of Hemp. Viper Records, 230 Mott St., New York NY 10012, www.viperrecords.com.

 

Robert M. Stutman and Richard Esposito. Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street. Warner Books, New York, 1992.

 

Jacob Sullum. Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, 2003.

 

Thomas Szasz. Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers. Anchor/Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1974.

 

Peter Temin. Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1980.

 

Gordon Thomas. Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse. Bantam, New York, 1989.

 

Stuart Walton. Out of It : A Cultural History of Intoxication. Harmony Books (Random House), New York, 2002.

 

Gary Webb and Maxine Waters. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, New York, 1999.