Smoke and Mirrors

By Dan Baum,

Book cover of Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure

Book description

For sheer government absurdity, the War on Drugs is hard to beat. After three decades of increasingly punitive policies, illicit drugs are more easily available, drug potencies are greater, drug killings are more common, and drug barons are richer than ever. The War on Drugs costs Washington more than the…

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