... a welcome addition to the growing literature on the use and misuse of psychoactive substances and the policies and interventions that make up the global war against drugs ... Written in a clear and accessible style, the book challenges many of the misconceptions and stereotypes in our everyday thinking about the drugs problem and what is to be done ... Read moreabout it ... this book is a highly informative and valuable resource for all those interested in the use and control of drugs around the world today. Times Higher Education ... a forensic denunciation of contemporary drug prohibition as counterproductive and based on historically contingent assumptions. Rehearsing the history of drug scares in Europe, [Klein] explains the Byzantine contemporary international structures of the drug-control bodies, and the irrational separation between alcohol and nicotine on the one hand, and the rest of the pharmacopeia on the other ... I was left glad that tea happens to be legal.
Steven Poole The Guardian Show Less