Book Reviews About Cocaine
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Book Reviews About Cocaine
A Brief History of Cocaine
A well researched book about drugs in general, but cocaine in particular. It follows the role cocaine has played in world history, politics, economics, and science. Learn how coca has been grown, refined, distributed, and used around the world for centuries.
The author (a physician/historian) explains why the drug does what it does and why people use it. He documents all his statements of fact with an extensive bibliography.
A Brief History of Cocaine Cocaine:
An In-Depth Look at the Facts
Science, History and Future of the
World's Most Addictive Drug
A very good and easy to understand book that will be of value to the average reader or the student, interested in cocaine. Includes information about the history, synthesis, effects, and other aspects of cocaine.
This book is comprehensive, yet understandable. It will make it possible for anyone to understand the drug without being boring or overly technical.
Cocaine, An In-Depth Look... Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography
An interesting history of cocaine from its use in the Andes, thousands of years ago, to the present day. Starts with a history of the coca leaf and its prominent place in both ancient and contemporary consciousness, then looks at those involved from the producers of the drug to the final consumer.
Topics and people covered in the book include Columbus, Freud, Pablo Escobar, Manuel Noriega, George Jung, Richard Pryor, Len Bias, botanists, economists, lawmen, guerrillas, addicts, kingpins, Colombian cartels, government collusion with traffickers, the crack phenomenon, media hype, the U.S. war on drugs, the legalization debate and more.
Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography (softcover) Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography (hardcover) Cocaine:
From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace
in the United States, 1884-1920
Traces the early history (before 1920) of cocaine in America. Among other things, the book explores the role of American business in fostering consumer interest in cocaine during the years when cocaine was legal (in 1914 the U.S. federal government classified cocaine as a narcotic, and outlawed it).
Also looks at the ways in which authorities and social agents tried to establish informal controls on the substance, and the mixed results they achieved. Includes facts that have previously been overlooked in most books about the history of cocaine and several b&w images of cocaine advertising.
Cocaine: Medical Marvel (softcover) Cocaine: Medical Marvel (hardcover) Cocaine (History of Drugs)
Traces the history of cocaine by looking at various articles that have been written about the drug. Pretty good book that includes both the positive and negative sides of cocaine.
Most of the articles are about crack and cocaine but there are two about the early use of coca leaves (cocaine is made from coca leaves). From The History of Drugs series of books.
Cocaine (History of Drugs) Cocaine Politics:
Drugs, Armies, and the CIA
in Central America
When the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they re-ignited the issue of the intelligence agency's connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra affair.
Broad in scope and extensively documented, Cocaine Politics shows that under the cover of national security and covert operations, the U.S. government has repeatedly collaborated with our supposed enemies in the war on drugs.
Cocaine Politics Crackhouse:
Notes from the End of the Line
True story of a crackhouse with a family (not related) of three male and four female users. The book looks at the day to day life of the seven people.
Some interesting info about cocaine and a look at the culture of the users. It shows the down side of crackhouse life with as much negative info as possible.
Crackhouse Crack in America:
Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Well written, with reliable facts on the medical, legal and social components of crack in the USA. If you want reliable information in order to make a personal decision about crack and how our society might deal with it, this would be a wise choice.
Crack in America Dark Alliance:
The CIA, the Contras,
and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
Very detailed look at how the CIA (the organization entrusted to prevent illegal drugs from being brought into the United States) helped to import and sell crack cocaine on the streets of American cities.
It shows, with thorough descriptions, how the CIA helped Nicaraguan Contra rebels ship planeloads of cocaine into the US. In exchange for cocaine, the Contras got weapons to fight their war in Nicaragua.
Dark Alliance (softcover) Dark Alliance (hardcover) Killing Pablo:
The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Pablo Escobar was a teenage car thief who later became a Colombian drug lord. At his peak in the 1970's and 1980's, he was earning about a million dollars a day from his criminal network, primarily from selling cocaine to U.S. importers.
He was loved by many poor Columbian people because of his generosity but an enemy of the law because he generally killed those who couldn't be bought. This book describes his life and how the U.S. and Columbian governments hunted for, found, and killed Pablo.
Killing Pablo Pleasures of Cocaine:
If You Enjoy:
This Book May Save Your Life
This is a book you should look at if you use occasionally or if you've never tried cocaine but would like to. Gives information about the recommended dose size, how to minimize negative effects of the drug, warning signs of overuse, determining quality when buying, growing coca plants, and more.
A lot of information for a small book. If you are a heavy cocaine user, this book will be of little value. It is better suited to people who like the drug and would like to use it without getting messed up. Moderation is the key.
Pleasures of Cocaine White Lines:
Writers on Cocaine
A collection of articles written by popular writers about their thoughts on cocaine. Includes Aleister Crowley, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Conan Doyle, William S. Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis, J.G. Ballard, Kim Wozencraft, Terry Southern, Peter Biskind, and Julia Phillips.
White Lines