This Is Your Country on Drugs
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This Is Your Country on Drugs

The Secret History of Getting High in America

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This Is Your Country on Drugs

The Secret History of Getting High in America

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About This Book

Everything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong

Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the U.S.-from the agony (the huge DEA bust of an acid lab in an abandoned missile silo in Kansas) to the ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and music festivals). Along the way, Grim discovers some surprising truths. Did anti-drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak years ago? Did our Founding Fathers-or, better yet, their wives-get high just as much as we do?

  • Traces the evolution of United States's long and twisted relationship with drugs
  • Gives surprising answers to questions such as: how did heroin become popular, when did the meth epidemic peak, and has LSD gone the way of Quaaludes
  • Based on solid reporting and wide-ranging research-including surveys, reports, historical accounts, and more

Not since Eric Schlosser ventured underground to marijuana's black market in Reefer Madness has a reporter trained such a keen eye on drugs and culture. A powerful and often shocking history of one of our knottiest social and cultural problems, This is Your Country on Drugs leads you on a profound exploration of what it means to be an American.

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Publisher
Trade Paper Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780470638088
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. CHAPTER 1 - The Acid Casualty
  5. CHAPTER 2 - A Pharmacopoeia Utopia
  6. CHAPTER 3 - Prohibition, Inc.
  7. CHAPTER 4 - America’s Little Helper
  8. CHAPTER 5 - New Coke
  9. CHAPTER 6 - D.A.R.E. to Be Different
  10. CHAPTER 7 - Border Justice
  11. CHAPTER 8 - Kids Today
  12. CHAPTER 9 - You Trip
  13. CHAPTER 10 - Blowback
  14. CHAPTER 11 - Conflicts of Interest
  15. CHAPTER 12 - Puff, Puff, Live
  16. CHAPTER 13 - Cat and Mouse
  17. CHAPTER 14 - Acid Redux
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. NOTES
  20. INDEX