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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
What was the U.S. government’s original motivation behind drug prohibition? How has the way we view addiction changed over time? What happens when a country—or a state—decriminalizes drugs? What about hard drugs?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Chasing the Scream is available here, along with all of Hari’s interviews and notes used in writing the book.
Hari mentions Jeffrey Miron’s work on the economics of drug prohibition; you can read Miron’s recent work here.
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