-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.drugwar.com/reviews.htm Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.drugwar.com/reviews.htm"> http://www.drugwar.com/reviews.htm</A> ----- "Dan Russell is a paradigm shifter of the first order. In the twenty-two years that I have been living the seemingly intractable problem of drugs, the economy, government and ethics I have found myself being compelled to answer ever larger and larger questions.... With a sixteen page bibliography and more than 1300 footnotes, Russell has gone outside "the box" to provide explanations that resonate with my life’s journey and the better parts of the human spirit as I have found them. As a recovering alcoholic who, as part of his spiritual life, uses no mind altering chemicals of any kind, the historical truths of shamanic pharmacology and their implications ring totally true. The race has been cut off from itself. Dan Russell has expanded my consciousness. Out of hundreds of books I have read there are only fifteen on my top reference shelf, Drug War is now one of them. Anyone who wants to understand the real issues raised by drugs and the drug war cannot afford to bypass this seminal work." Michael C. Ruppert, former LAPD narcotics investigator; anti-CIA activist; publisher/editor - From The Wilderness @ www.copvcia.com "I just finished Drug War. Wow! I have learned so much and enjoyed this read tremendously. Your book was a watershed event for me. It helped me 'see the world whole' and understand the drug business and the war on drugs in an important new way. We are all pressed for time, but reading your book was the ultimate time saver for me. There is nothing more powerful than understanding the chaos when you are in it....Your book is a monumental achievement....for goodness sakes this needs to get out asap. Excellent is excellent!" Catherine Austin Fitts, Federal Housing Commissioner, 1989-90; President, Solari, Inc.; www.solari.com "Dan Russell's Drug War goes to the heart of the so-called 'drug-problem', really a 'prohibition-problem': extra-curricular drug- and gun-running by numerous governments, with that of the United States at the head of the list, its cynical and duplicitous 'war on drugs' notwithstanding - nought but a racist war on the poor and disenfranchised, both nationally and internationally, and withal a 'war on the drug competition'; nor ought we to forget who invented modern money laundering shell-games, nor who profits the most from them. I urge you to read Dan Russell's shocking exposé - may it serve as a much-needed wake-up call!" Jonathan Ott, author/co-author of Pharmacophilia Or The Natural Paradises, Pharmacotheon, Persephone's Quest, The Road To Eleusis, Hallucinogenic Plants of North America, The Age of Entheogens, etc. "The best book I ever read on the Drug War." Celerino Castillo III, lead DEA agent in Guatemala and El Salvador, 1985-90, who developed much of the Contra cocaine evidence; author of Powderburns; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Drug War epitomizes such books as Alexander Cockburn’s Whiteout, Alfred McCoy’s The Politics of Heroin, and Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance all together, with riveting photography throughout. Written in an easy to read, flowing style that is entertaining while at the same time amazingly detailed, concise, and to the point, Drug War covers one hell of a lot of ground. With a sixteen page bibliography, and a copious amount of footnotes, this is a very in-depth look at the current state of affairs, the whys and wherefores of the Drug War." Preston Peet, High Times Magazine "Dan Russell's sequel Drug War is on par with Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States. This historical account needs to be in every educational institution, beginning with high school, to tell the other side of the story of our loss of earth-based ecstasy. Drug War brilliantly shows how our healing relationship with plant allies came to be replaced with the prevailing political agenda of drug propaganda. I recommend this great book, which I personally couldn't put down as it engages like a historical / political novel, for all schools of free thinkers. It is the central text in our homeschool for my teenagers this year!" Jeannine Parvati Baker, author of Hygieia:A Woman's Herbal; Conscious Conception:Elemental Journey Through the Labyrinth of Sexuality; Prenatal Yoga & Natural Birth: Freestone Innerprizes: Optimal Personal & Family Health "In Drug War, author Dan Russell convincingly demonstrates that the current CIA-Drugs debate is part of a larger societal struggle between the forces of freedom and those of repression, and that the phony 'drug war' is really just a 'trojan horse' in the creation of what has been called 'friendly fascism.' Drug War is an amazingly entertaining read, and the most comprehensive look yet at the biggest mystery of our culture: why drugs are illegal, who profits, and who benefits... a tour de force of intellectual courage and honesty on a subject which encourages neither." Daniel Hopsicker, The Drug Money Times, author of the upcoming Barry and the Boys "An important, strenuously argued contribution to the case against our nation's scandalous narcotics policies and laws. Particularly valuable are the the encyclopaedic historical and anthropological perspectives which the author brings to bear on our cultural crisis. His scathing review of today's unjust confiscation and sentencing statutes is balanced by encouraging and badly-needed statistics about the successes of alternatives, such as the Dutch decriminalization program." Peter Dale Scott, English Department, University of California, Berkeley, author of Cocaine Politics, Deep Politics , Crime & Cover-Up, Coming To Jakarta, etc. "Russell provides a vibrant, detailed history of drug use and drug policy. This book should be studied by anyone working to develop a policy that works. It is obvious that we are currently repeating mistakes we have made in the past -- hopefully this book will be widely read and more sensible approaches can be pursued." "Russell's review of history shows that drug prohibition enforced by a war on drugs will not only fail, it will make health, crime and other drug-related policies worse. By learning from history we can break the spiraling cycle of extremist policies and enact more cost-effective approaches that create a safer and healthier America." Kevin Zeese, Esq.,President, Common Sense For Drug Policy "A very impressive piece of work! You have given the reader a detailed description of prohibition and criminalization, and a chronicle of the early U.S. legal issues and bureaucratic decisions. Further, you have sketched out the economic, social, and political reasons for those decisions. Your anecdotes are enjoyable, your breadth is magnificent, and the data are well-supported... This is a hard-hitting account that will disturb many of its readers, but may also expand their perspective by offering alternative options to what has become a no-win situation." Stanley Krippner, PH.D., co-author of The Mythic Path, co-editor of Broken Images, Broken Selves Journal of Cognitive Liberties: "a penetrating examination of the host of forces currently supporting the modern Drug War...sure to become an essential addition to the Drug War library." Richard Glen Boire, Esq., Executive Director, The Alchemind Society "Mr. Russell has produced a work of careful scholarship that will interest not only the participants in the drug wars, but the drug-gang victims as well. This piece of contextually multidimentional history is academic in the finest tradition, and, realistically, should be required reading for junior high, high school, and college students as a rational substitute for the "Just Say No" ditty. Teachers, by reading and discussing this volume with their students, might derive an attitude adjustment. The rationale is to drive home the point that while not all illegal substances are harmful as officially alleged, uninformed substance abuse is not innocuous." "A fascinating tapestry of nineteenth and twentieth century history weaves highly informative pictures of medicine, racism, security agencies, and popular political movements such as neocolonialism. Some of the materials are usually excluded from current history books, and the author pulls no punches. And gives names, dates, and places accurately. Many of our best youth will recognize Drug War, the book, as the product of a writer who is shining a light on the subject of substances rather than shining them on in the customary way of often-uninformed society." "Drug War is heady, irreverent stuff because the reader is confronted with a huge succession of inescapable facts that challenge one’s views of the use and abuse of substances, both natural and synthetic. As in many other arenas of life, attitude is everything. "Pharmaco-shamanism" as laid out in great detail in Russell’s previous book, Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda, is reified in Drug War as one meaningful and sensible path between the extremes of a "fixation on sobriety" and some cultural acceptances of constant, purposeless intoxication. Legitimate medical information and roadmaps and systems of consciousness such as meditative practices help the potential substance abuser to steer a clear path between the extremes of drug abuse and drug-phobic sobriety to a healthy spiritual life facilitated in part by culturally-defined sacraments. The politico-historical element of substance use/abuse is partly summarized by Russell when he says, "since it prefers to finance physicians rather than drug-gangs, Holland has virtually eliminated drug-related crime." Marshall F. Gilula, M.D., EEG/Epilepsy Fellow, Department of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine; www.mindspring.com/~mgilula "Drug War is a sometimes glittering tale of how corrupted drug control and global politics are soul mates. As long as this war lasts, Russell's book is an encyclopedic weapon for drug policy reform intellectuals and soldiers." Peter D.A. Cohen Ph.D, Director, The Centre for Drug Research, University of Amsterdam "Dan Russel's Drug War is one of the more comprehensive studies on the real life truth about the real drug war and the lies that have been told to the American public. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how American 'politics' plays an important role in this political lie called the 'Drug War'. The American public should be informed and make immediate changes to the American political structure before it is too late. Otherwise, we will become like our own worst enemies. I am afraid that it is a current reality." John Carman, former Senior U.S. Customs Agent, and whistle-blower: www.carmaninvestigations.com amerikanexpose.com/customs "Drug War’s sickening hypothesis unfortunately makes intuitive sense once articulated, and has the broad power not only to tie together a vast array of seemingly unrelated geopolitical events, but explain the otherwise unexplainable drug war. This book should be required reading for anyone who is puzzled by the seeming irrationality of current drug policy, concerned with the steady erosion of civil liberties...or simply seeks to understand the history of the 20th century from a new angle. I highly recommend it." R. Andrew Sewell, M.D., University of Massachusetts/Memorial Health Care "Russell’s Drug War is an excellent antidote to the drumbeat for ever increasing incarceration and punitive drug policies. We can learn a great deal from Drug War about how our society got into the self-destructive mess we are in, and how we can work our way out." Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies: www.maps.org "Although I am not an expert in many of the areas covered, I find this general history to be well written, easy to read, and fascinating. I believe it will be one more nail in the coffin of the Drug War." Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School "A frightening but fascinating book - An in-depth, accurate and very detailed story covering more than a century of disastrous US policies on drugs and public health. Every American should read it." Alain Pire, founder de huy! : groupe pop/psyché originaire de la ville susnommée: http://members.xoom.com/al_pire; BS, communications, Liège University; MS, computer science, Namur University; Ph.D. on creativity and entheogens in the sixties in prep; French translator of Drug War. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. 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