On: Time to end the war on drugs

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For an excellent perspective on the damage the drug war causes internationally, read "The Politics of Heroin" by Alfred McCoy. It's dense but illuminating.

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I tried to summarize McCoy's book on Wikipedia a few years ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_South... and also cover the controversy on publication.

You can find the first edition online if you google; as far as I know, the second edition (the one I have, which covers Afghanistan as well) is not online.