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Drug
Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess And How We
Can Get Out, is a gripping and dramatic review
of the drug war over the last 100 years. It is being
published by Random House. From the opening scene,
a shoot out between police and drug gangs in Chicago,
the book draws you in with human stories, amazing
revelations and the whole sordid history of the drug
war.
Drug Crazy will capture the imagination of the public,
convince many that prohibition will never work, and
open a dialogue on drug policy at a level we have
never seen before.
The author is Mike Gray, best known as the writer
of the screenplay, The China Syndrome (Jane Fonda,
Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas) which forever altered
the public view concerning nuclear energy. Drug Crazy
could do the same thing to the war on drugs.
Drug Crazy is fascinating, informative, scary and
rewarding. Everyone who has seen an advance copy is
enthusiastic about its potential to open people's
minds and change opinion.
You can help spread the word. Ask your local store
manager for Drug Crazy by Mike Gray, published by
Random House. if they don't have it, ask when they
will.
Comments
on Drug Crazy
Anyone who thinks the war on drugs is succeeding should
read this book. It shifts the burden of proof from
the critics of existing policy to its defenders. This
is no mean achievement!
(Elliott Richardson, former United States Attorney
General)
Never did I think one could learn so much about the
drug crisis all in one place. Mike Gray has written
a book of profound compassion that nevertheless deals
intelligently with the facts. Drug Crazy is an antidote
for passivity.
(Daniel Schorr, National Public Radio)
The true story that Mike Gray tells so effectively
is indeed stranger than fiction. Who would believe
that a democratic government would pursue for eight
decades a failed policy that produced tens of millions
of victims and trillions of dollars of illicit profits
for drug dealers; cost taxpayers hundreds of billions
of dollars; increased crime and destroyed inner cities;
fostered widespread corruption and violations of human
rights and all with no success in achieving the stated
and unattainable objective of drug-free America.
(Milton Friendman, Nobel Laureate Fellow, Hoover
Institution)
Drug Crazy is an oasis of clarity and common sense
in a desert of misinformation and hysteria.9
(Ira Glasser, ACLU)
This urgent issue badly needs the exposure given in
this book, a chilling array of facts which hopefully
will move the country.
(Henry Kendell, Nobel Laureate Chairman, Union
of Concerned Scientists)
This is a book that every American who is concerned
about the problem of drugs in America should read
and take seriously. It is a revealing and well documented
account of some of the weaknesses and problems involved
in our present approach to drugs and a suggestion
of how we can do better.
(George McGovern, former Presidential candidate)
This is an insightful book about the discriminatory
nature of the drug war in America and how our politicians
have converted a chronic medical problem into a criminal
justice problem. It also explains how the increase
in petty drug busts has been used to make politicians
look tough on crime, build jail cells and deny funding
for drug prevention and education programs for children.
(Dr Joycelyn Elders, former US Surgeon General,
Professor of Endocrinology, Arkansas Children's Hospital)
Drug Crazy dramatically and in stark detail exposes
the truths of the futility of our Nation's self-destructive
drug war over the past 80 years)truths shamefully
known by law enforcement officials, judges and political
leaders for almost just as long. This book is a must
read for as much of the general public as possible,
for only when democratic government and the quality
of life in our country cause by a totally failed criminal
drug policy will our political leaders find the courage
to endorse drug sanity.
(Samuel Dash, Professor of Law, Georgetown University,
former Chief Counsel, Senate Watergate Committee)
I learned an enormous amount about the underside of
drug politics from reading Drug Crazy. It is an eye-opener.
The book raises controversial but reasoned suggestions
for rethinking drug policy in the United States. I
highly recommend this book to everyone concerned about
developing an effective strategy toward drug abuse.
(Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School)
This book sheds real light on what is happening in
American cities today and how current drug control
strategies undermine our efforts to keep our kids
and streets safe. Anyone who is serious about finding
solutions to drug-related problems should read this
book, debate it with their colleagues and demand real
solutions from their elected leaders.
(Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, City of Baltimore)
This book tells the public what many front line police
officers know from their experience, the drug war
needs radical re-evaluation.
(Joseph McNamara, The Hoover Institution, former
Police Chief, San Jose, California)
Drug Crazy provides an incisive historical analysis
of America's ongoing problem with drug control, from
alcohol under Prohibition to heroin and crack today.
Gray suggests we're fighting the wrong battle in the
war on drugs, and makes a strong case for refocussing
our attention on the root of the problem, the kingpins
behind the drug trade, not the street players who
now crowd our jails.
(Randy K. Jones, President, National Bar Association)
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