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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
A critical exploration of the user’s perspective on drug consciousness-now in paperback!
Engaging, articulate, and brilliantly argued, On Drugs is destined to become a revolutionary classic that redefines what it means to be “high.” Calling for the acceptance of a “diversity of consciousness,” Lenson delivers a searing critique of the War on Drugs as an effort based, like all attempts to eradicate “getting high,” on an incomplete understanding of human nature.
In lucid prose, Lenson ventures outside the conventional genres of drug writing and offers a new look at the drug debate from a lost, and often forbidden, point of view: ... Read moreFrom lotus-eaters to hippies to crackheads, history has shown the state’s inability to legislate the bloodstreams of its citizens. After considering several specific issues associated with drug use-including sex, violence, and money-On Drugs asks what drugs really do and challenges society’s accepted notions of sobriety and addiction. Lenson concludes with his vision of the end of the War on Drugs by questioning the sense in condemning millions of Americans to lives of concealment and deceit. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816627110
SKU
V9780816627110
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About David Lenson
David Lenson is professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Achilles Choice: Examples of Modern Tragedy (1975) and The Birth of Tragedy: A Commentary (1987). A rock and blues musician, he is proudest of having played saxophone with John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells.
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