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  1. Addiction and Control
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
  2. Alberta College of Pharmacists
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Bellwood Health Services Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Beyond the War on Drugs
    Overcoming a Failed Public Policy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Beyond the War on Drugs argues persuasively for a fundamental reassessment of drug control policy. The thrust of the book is simply that the 'war on drugs' cannot be won by trying to dry up the source, since there will always be demand to create supply.
  5. Canadian Prostate Cancer Network (CPCN) -- The Voice of Prostate Cancer in Canada<tm>
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. The Candy Machine
    How Cocaine Took Over the World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    Cocaine is big business, and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps running it behind the scenes? Feiling traces cocaine's progress from legal ‘pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programmes in countries like Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand.
  7. A Child's Garden of Grass
    The Official Handbook for Marijuana Users

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A humourous examination of the world of marijuana and marijuana users.
  8. The Cocaine-Contra-CIA Complex - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    Dark Alliance. The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998), Hardback $24.95.
  9. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  11. Don't Blame the Medicine
    Use the Drug Expert Pharmacist

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  12. The Drug Store in American Meat
    We're Eating What?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989.
  13. Drug use, the labour market and class conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle.
  14. Drug War Winners and Losers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
  15. The Drugs Myth
    Why the Drug Wars Must Stop

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Coleman presents medical evidence that the most dangerous and life-threatening drugs are legal, while the banned drugs are comparatively harmless.
  16. Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to drugs and pharmaceuticals in the Sources directory for the media.
  17. From Policy to Practice
    The Future of the Bangladesh National Drug Policy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    In 1982, Bangladesh became the first country to introduce a National Drug Policy based on such conceptions as primary health care and the need for essential drugs. Ten years later, it had one of the best records in terms of stable drug prices and less dependence on imported products.
  18. Grass
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1999
    Grass, narrated by actor and pot advocate Woody Harrelson, is entertaining activism, showing the serious history of marijuana in the United States, starting from the turn of the century, when anti-marijuana laws were passed to control the Mexicans in Texas. The focus is on the legacy of the first Federal Bureau of Narcotics chief Harry J. Anslinger, who created the war on drugs to build a personal power base.
  19. High Society
    Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  20. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  21. The Medicine Show
    Resource Type: Book
  22. My Freedom, Your Freedom
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
  23. The Narco News Bulletin
    Resource Type: Website
    Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
  24. The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
  25. Peaceful Measures
    Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  26. Perspectives on Canadian Drug Policy Volume 1
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    A symposium of articles on issues of drug addiction and treatment in Canada. Articles include "Substance Abuse and Crime," "Canada's Drug Laws: Prohibition Is Not the Answer," and "Drug Policy in Canada: War if Neccessary But Not Neccessarily War."
  27. Rejected for jury duty
    Resource Type: Article
    Discussing the effectiveness of the policies of the "war on drugs" -- in the courtroom.
  28. Shadow boxing in the drug ring
    Resource Type: Article
    The "war on drugs" and its simplistic nature.
  29. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  30. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  31. Sources welcomes Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor/Oscapella and Associates
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor/Oscapella and Associates.
  32. Strictly Legal
    The Caronia Decision and a Culture of Mercantile Nihilism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Caronia decision reveals an injustice system whose function is to provide legal cover for the excesses of the corporate elite. Caronia is a wake-up moment, announcing that the institutions and the philosophy that sustains it are broken, maybe beyond repair, and must be replaced now, while we’re still standing, by new social forms imbued with sane and humane values.
  33. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  34. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  35. The War Over Mangoes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
  36. World evil with its roots in the North
    Resource Type: Article
    Good drugs and bad drugs: the evolution of drugs and government, and implications for those suffering as a result of unfair trade policy.

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