Cocaine nation : how the white trade took over the world / Tom Feiling.
2010
HV5810 .F45 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Cocaine nation : how the white trade took over the world / Tom Feiling.
Author
Feiling, Tom.
Edition
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
ISBN
9781605981017
160598101X
160598101X
Imprint
New York : Pegasus Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 350 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HV5810 .F45 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.298
Summary
In Cocaine Nation, Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York, meeting Medellin hitmen, U.S. kingpins, Brazilian traffickers, and talking to soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs and cartels. He traces cocaine's progress from legal "pick-me-up" to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programs in countries such as Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand.
Note
Originally published as: The candy machine : how cocaine took over the world. London : Penguin, 2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Feiling, Tom. Candy machine.
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Table of Contents
How did we get here? From soft drink to hard drug ; Building a hard drug economy ; A rush to punish ; Cutting off the lizard's tail
Supply and the Third World. Smugglers ; The Mexican supply chain ; 'Cocaine is the atomic bomb of Latin America' ; Globalization
Where do we go from here? The demand for cocaine ; Legalization ; Prospects.
Supply and the Third World. Smugglers ; The Mexican supply chain ; 'Cocaine is the atomic bomb of Latin America' ; Globalization
Where do we go from here? The demand for cocaine ; Legalization ; Prospects.