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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jack A. Cole
Executive Director – Massachusetts
Peter Christ
Treasurer – New York
Edward Ellison
Director – The United Kingdom
John A. Gayder
Secretary – Ontario
Walter McKay
Director – Canada
Judge Eleanor Schockett
Director – Florida
Howard J. Wooldridge
Director – Texas
ADVISORY BOARD
Hon. Warren W. Eginton
Judge, US District Court, Connecticut
Hon. Gustavo de Greiff
Former Attorney General of Colombia,
South America
Hon. Gary E. Johnson
Former Governor of the State of
New Mexico
Hon. John L. Kane
Judge, US District Court, Colorado
Hon. Whitman Knapp
Judge, US District Court, New York
Sheriff Bill Masters
Sheriff, San Miguel County, CO
Dr. Joseph McNamara
Former Chief, San Jose PD, California
Mr. Patrick V. Murphy
Former Commissioner, NYPD,
New York
Mr. Nick Pastore
Former chief, New Haven PD,
Connecticut
Hon. Robert Sweet
Judge, US District Court, New York
Mr. Francis Wilkinson
Former Chief Constable, Gwent Police
Force, South Wales, UK
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Bibliography of Drug-Policy Reform
Baum, Dan. Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. (Baum explains exactly how “the war
on drugs” started by Richard M. Nixon in 1968 and shows that it was based on lies
and misconceptions from the very beginning.)
Bertram, Eva and Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe, and Peter Andreas. Drug War
Politics: The Price of Denial. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996.
Between Prohibition and Legalization: The Dutch Experiment in Drug Policy. Edited
by Ed Leuw and I. Haen Marshall. Amsterdam: Kugler Publications, 1996.
Burnham, David. Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other
Misadventures of the U.S. Deparment of Justice. New York: Scribner, 1996.
Christie, Nils. Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style. New
York: Routledge, 1993. (208 pages) Speaks of the possibility that crime control
rather than crime itself may be the real danger for our future.
Cockburn, Alexander and Jeffrey St. Clair. Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press.
London: Verso, 1998.
Cole, David. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal
Justice System. New York: The New Press, 1999.
Cole, Jack A. “End Prohibition Now!” To View or Download both the PowerPoint
presentation and the accompanying text of Jack’s talk (complete with comments on
when to switch slides) go to http://www.leap.cc/publications/index.htm
Drug Legalization: For and Against. Edited by Rod Evans and Irwin M. Berent. La
Salle, IL: Open Court, 1992.
Freidman, Milton and Szasz, Thomas S. On Liberty And Drugs: Essays on the Free
Market and Prohibition. Edited by Arnold S. Trebach and Kevin B. Zeese,
Washington, DC: The Drug Policy Foundation Press, 1992.
Gray, Mike. Drug Crazy : How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out.
New York: Random House, 1998. (http://www.drugcrazy.com/)
Gray, Judge James P. Why Our Drug Laws Have FAILED and What We Can Do
About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 2001.
How to Legalize Drugs. Edited by Jefferson M. Fish, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson,
Inc., 1998.
Jordan, David C. Drug Politics: Dirty Money and Democracies. Norman, OK:
University of Oklohoma Press, 1999.
Kappeler, Victor E., Blumberg, Mark, and Potter, Gary W. The Mythology of Crime
and Criminal Justice. Second Edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.,
1996.
Levine, Michael. Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost
Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War. New York: Delacorte Press, 1990. As I spent 14 years working
undercover, two of those in deep cover I can see the truth of this very fine expose of failed drug policies.
Levy, Leonard W. A License to Steal: The Forfeiture of Property. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1996. Documents the use of the forfeiture laws to take property from people who are never charged with a
crime, in the one system in US Justice where you are guilty until proven innocent.
Lusane, Clarence. Pipe Dream Blues: Racism & the War on Drugs. Boston: South End Press, 1991. An
excellent book exposing the racism involved in prosecuting the war on drugs and explaining in depth the real
reasons that marijuana was demonized.
MacCoun Robert J. and Peter Reuter. Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, & Places.
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Marshall, Jonathan; Scott, Peter Dale and Hunter, Jane. Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert
Operations in the Reagan Era. Boston: South End Press, 1987.
McCoy, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. New York: Lawrence
Hill Books, 1991. The best and most complete book I have read on the politics of heroin.
McWilliams, Peter. Ain’t Nobody’s Business If Your Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free
Country. Los Angeles: Prelude Press, 1996.
Miller, Richard Lawrence. Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State. Westport,
CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996. One of the best and most frightening books I have come across on drug policy of
the US. Compares U.S. policies against drug users with those of Nazi Germany against the Jews.
(http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/media/rlmiller.htm)
Mokhiber, Russell. Corporate Crime and Violence: Big Business Power and the Abuse of the Public Trust. San
Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988.
Nadelmann, Ethan A. Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement.
Pennsylvania Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
Reeves, Jimmie L. and Campbell, Richard. Cracked Coverage: Television News, The Anti-cocaine Crusade, and
the Reagan Legacy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.
Riley, Kevin Jack. Snow Job? The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Publishers, 1996.
Scott, Peter Dale and Johnathan Marshall. Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America.
Berkley: University of California Press, 1998.
Skolnick, Jerome H. and James J. Fyfe. Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force. New York:
The Free Press, 1993.
Sluder, Richard D. The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice. Second Edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland
Press, Inc., 1996.
Sullum, Jacob. Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use. New York: J. P. Tarcher, 2003. An excellent, scholarly
book debunking the myths of what Sullum calls “Voodoo pharmacology” and suggesting that responsible drug use
is not only possible but the norm.
Armstrong, Scott, et al. The National Security Archive. The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of
the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras. New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1987.
Trebach, Arnold S. and Inciardi, James A. Legalize it? Debating American Drug Policy. Washington, DC: The
American University Press, 1993.
Zimmer, Lynn. And John P. Morgan. Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: a review of the scientific evidence.
New York: The Lindesmith Center, 1997.
Zimring, Franklin E. and Gordon Hawkins. Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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