*Policing on Drugs*

The author is Aileen Teague, and the subtitle is The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000.  I had been wanting to read a book on this topic, and this manuscript covered exactly the ground I was hoping for.  Excerpt:

…in 1965, only 4.8 percent of college students in the Northeast had ever tried marijuana.  By 1970, that figure jmped to 48 percent of college students from Northeast schools having used marijuana within the last year.

Jim Buchanan was right?  Blame the Beatles?  Remember when so much of the drug trade was a Turkish-French thing?

If you are wondering, the Mexican drug cartels emerged during the 1970s.  Perhaps the author blames more of this on U.S. policy than I think is correct?  If Nixon had never cracked down and militarized the issue, I suspect the evolution of the matter would not be so different from current status quo?  Unless of course you wish to go the Walmart route.

In any case a good book on a topic of vital importance.