TY - BOOK AB - 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. AU - Feiling, Tom. AU - Feiling, Tom. CN - HV5810 CN - HV5810 CY - New York : DA - 2010. ET - 1st Pegasus Books cloth ed. ID - 338126 KW - Cocaine. KW - Drug traffic. KW - Cocaine abuse. KW - Cocaine KW - Cocaine abuse KW - Cocaine industry KW - Drug control KW - Cocaine abuse N1 - Originally published as: The candy machine : how cocaine took over the world. London : Penguin, 2009. N2 - 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. PB - Pegasus Books : PB - Distributed by W.W. Norton, PP - New York : PY - 2010. SN - 9781605981017 SN - 160598101X T1 - Cocaine nation :how the white trade took over the world / TI - Cocaine nation :how the white trade took over the world / ER -