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George F. Will on “the drug legalization dilemma”
Conservative columnist George F. Will writes the first in his series of opinion-pieces on the legalization of drugs (Washington Post). The column includes these interesting statistics: “Almost all...
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Cuba, drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling (book)
Eduardo Rovner, The Cuban Connection: Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Club from the 1920s to the Revolution. Translated by Ross Davidson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...
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Adulteration increasing with coffee bean prices
The Washington Post reports that as “high temperatures, drought and a plant disease known as coffee rust are devastating Arabica coffee trees” in Central America and South America, more of our coffee...
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On the use of private military and security companies in the War on Drugs...
Hobson, Christopher. “Privatising the War on Drugs.” Third World Quarterly 35, no. 8 (September 2014): 1441–56. On the growth and role of private military and security companies funded in the service...
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Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (anthology)
Pierce, Gretchen, and Aurea Toxqui, eds. Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. Filed under: Alcohol (general), Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,...
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Drug War Capitalism (book, author interview)
Author and journalist Dawn Paley presents a thesis that the drug war “enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure.” “…how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of...
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