Download e-book for iPad: For God, Country and Drug Prohibition by Constantine Issighos

A retrospective examine the present drug prohibition, the writer Constantine Issighos demonstrates the USA's drug coverage as being useless, harmful and dear, therefore describing an "anatomy of failure." He examines the origins of the drug temperance circulation to legislate public morality, which became the battle on medications. but, regardless of the ineffectiveness of the USA's coverage, drug prohibition keeps to reason substantial human tragedy in our early life and between Latin America's coca plant growers. the writer has witnessed the destructiveness of the DEA's mercenaries, the coca plant eradication and its results at the existence and overall healthiness of the campesinos. occasions defined during this booklet are real tales, yet this isn't an autobiography of the author's adventure as a contrabandist, smuggler, bootlegger, forger and corruptors of officers, according to see. even though a few information of the author's genuine lifestyles stories below prohibition are introduced ahead, these are provided basically to help convinced small print opposed to the current drug prohibition. the writer exhibits that drug use, distribution, creation and guidelines can't be tested in isolation from the regulations and practices of Drug Prohibition and the warfare on medications. right here the problem of drug prohibition isn't really handled as a tutorial topic, yet as actual existence results and classes that had to be informed. the point of interest of the teachings is easy, for the tip of prohibition potential the tip of drug criminal activity. spiritual puritanical moralists have a perpetual clash in facing human family members that aren't "immaculate" acts in any shape. the upcoming thread is that there's no restrict to the ethical erosion of humanity the place the irrational turns into a regimen practice.