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Unintended consequences: Illegal drugs and drug policies in nine countries
Review Essays
~n~a~l3~, 2-i: a~~~b~~o~g~~~%~0~~~~ thelong-gland “T~uty on Frier&ship, Cooperation and Patine&@” was signed in Kyiv GGevv) by Russian president Yeltsin and Ukrainian president Ku&ma. ?he treaty is ambiguous at best and a merely tactical arrangement at worst-it does not change the reviewer’s conclusion. See Roman Woronouiycz @@ivPress Bureau), “Ukraine, Russia Sign Long-Awaited Bilat~~ Treaty, ” Haitian Weeks, June 8, 1997, pp. 1, 4, and editorial, “Vk?aine and Russia Agree, “p. 6. - YarosEavBilinsky
The Unwinnable War on the Drug Trade by Patrick Lloyd Hatcher
Unintended Consequences: Illegal Drugs and Drug Policies in Nine Countties. By LaMond Tullis. (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1995. 229 pp.
$45.00.) i%e
Am&an Coca&e I??&.&~. By Patrick Clawson and Renssaiaer W. Lee III. Press, 19%. 276 pp. $35.00.)
(New York: St. M~n’s
Narco-Diplomacy: Exporting the U.S. War on L&igs, By H. Richard Friman. pp. $29.95.)
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. 170
Snow Job? i%e War Against International Cocaine Tra@&ng. By Kevin Jack Riley. (New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Publishers, 1996. 303 pp. $34.95.)
Global Habit: 7he Drug Problem in a Bora&-less World. By Paul B. Stares. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1996. 171 pp. $24.95.) Drmgsin the Western Hemisphere: An Odyssey of Cultures in Con&d. Edited by William 0. Walker III. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 19%. 242 pp. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.) Drug abuse in the United States long predates the twentieth century, In fact, early Freudians initially sang the praises of cocaine as a wonder drug for use in psychoanalysis and therapy, and peddlers of patent medicine and elixirs had no dif%cuIty finding unwitting customers for their nineteenth-century potions, Kevin Riley, author of ~no~~o~, admits to his astonis~ent when he discovered that early bottkngs of Coca Cola contained small but potent doses of cocaine, and that by 1885 pharmacists and door-to-door salesmen routinely hawked the Patrick Lloyd Hatcher is a retired Army intelligence officer and received a Ph.D. in History from the University af California, Berkeley. His most recent hook is N&b Atlalatic CMIzation at War: l%e Bat&s I$ Sky, Sand, Snow, Sea, and Shore &%rmonk,N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
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~n~a~l3~, 2-i: a~~~b~~o~g~~~%~0~~~~ thelong-gland “T~uty on Frier&ship, Cooperation and Patine&@” was signed in Kyiv GGevv) by Russian president Yeltsin and Ukrainian president Ku&ma. ?he treaty is ambiguous at best and a merely tactical arrangement at worst-it does not change the reviewer’s conclusion. See Roman Woronouiycz @@ivPress Bureau), “Ukraine, Russia Sign Long-Awaited Bilat~~ Treaty, ” Haitian Weeks, June 8, 1997, pp. 1, 4, and editorial, “Vk?aine and Russia Agree, “p. 6. - YarosEavBilinsky
The Unwinnable War on the Drug Trade by Patrick Lloyd Hatcher
Unintended Consequences: Illegal Drugs and Drug Policies in Nine Countties. By LaMond Tullis. (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1995. 229 pp.
$45.00.) i%e
Am&an Coca&e I??&.&~. By Patrick Clawson and Renssaiaer W. Lee III. Press, 19%. 276 pp. $35.00.)
(New York: St. M~n’s
Narco-Diplomacy: Exporting the U.S. War on L&igs, By H. Richard Friman. pp. $29.95.)
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. 170
Snow Job? i%e War Against International Cocaine Tra@&ng. By Kevin Jack Riley. (New Brunswick, NJ.: Transaction Publishers, 1996. 303 pp. $34.95.)
Global Habit: 7he Drug Problem in a Bora&-less World. By Paul B. Stares. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1996. 171 pp. $24.95.) Drmgsin the Western Hemisphere: An Odyssey of Cultures in Con&d. Edited by William 0. Walker III. (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 19%. 242 pp. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.) Drug abuse in the United States long predates the twentieth century, In fact, early Freudians initially sang the praises of cocaine as a wonder drug for use in psychoanalysis and therapy, and peddlers of patent medicine and elixirs had no dif%cuIty finding unwitting customers for their nineteenth-century potions, Kevin Riley, author of ~no~~o~, admits to his astonis~ent when he discovered that early bottkngs of Coca Cola contained small but potent doses of cocaine, and that by 1885 pharmacists and door-to-door salesmen routinely hawked the Patrick Lloyd Hatcher is a retired Army intelligence officer and received a Ph.D. in History from the University af California, Berkeley. His most recent hook is N&b Atlalatic CMIzation at War: l%e Bat&s I$ Sky, Sand, Snow, Sea, and Shore &%rmonk,N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
Fall 1997 I 653