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Posted 15 April 2015 - 07:44 AM

Here's a new book, a New York Times Best Seller.

 

CHASING THE SCREAM: THE FIRST AND LAST DAYS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS

by Johann Hari

 

 

The war on drugs began about 100 years ago, but why? If you think about it, your great-grandparents could walk into any pharmacy and buy cocaine or heroin. This book explores why the war on drugs began and who started it. It seeks to answer a number of important questions, including, "Was addiction the problem?"; "Were children in danger from drugs 100 years ago?" and so on.

 

Here is a quote from the author Johann Hari in his interview with Sam Harris:

 

"Drugs were banned in the United States a century ago for a very different reason. They were banned in the middle of a huge race panic. After the Civil War, Reconstruction failed, and what you had were African Americans and Chinese Americans who-- rightly-- were pissed off. At various points they showed their anger-- in fact, given how extreme their oppression was, it's surprising they didn't show a lot more anger. Many white Americans explained this growing rebelliousness at the start of the 20th century by saying that African Americans and Chinese Americans were forgetting their place, using drugs, and attacking white people. If this sounds bizarre that's because it was!"

 

Hari unfolds the scary history of how the race war on African Americans and Chinese Americans clothed itself in the Red Herring garb of a War on Drugs! 

 

Fascinating stuff.

 





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