Focusing on political economic ideas and analysis, the author examines the reasons behind the lack of international concensus on the most effective methods for

Widely praised as a controversial but thoughtful alternative to drug control policies of its time, the first edition of The Great Drug War was released in 1987

A study of prohibitions: why they fail, how they begin, what causes them, who benefits, the methods and results. Drug wars are not only failures, they are count

The prohibitions on coffee in Egypt, Syria, Turkey from the 1500s to the 1700s.

Revised and updated edition that analyses how the Office of National Drug Control Policy employs statistics to misleadingly claim the War on Drugs is a success.