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Each month we will be featuring a book related to parenting, prohibition, and/or drug policy. On the 15th of each month, a new title will be posted here, along with ordering information. Please send us your comments, criticisms and other thoughts, either by clicking the "E-mail" button to the left, or the "Discuss" button to join our listserve, where we'll be dicussing these books with other members of the PEP community. Suggestions for titles to be featured may be sent to: erinhildebrandt@yahoo.com, with the subject line "Books." |
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Parents Ending Prohibition . . . because there are better ways to protect kids ! |
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"Junk" is a must-read for every starry-eyed activist born, like Moe, of a deep desire to make the world a better, safer, saner place. I couldn't put it down! From page 1, I was hooked, and I fear I may suffer withdrawal now that I've reached the end... It's as compelling as Richard Bach's "Illusions," and as ominously foreboding as George Orwell's "1984." ~ Erin Hildebrandt |
Each month we will be featuring a book related to parenting, prohibition, and/or drug policy. On the 15th of each month, a new title will be posted here, along with ordering information. Please send us your comments, criticisms and other thoughts, either by clicking the "E-mail" button to the left, or the "Discuss" button to join our listserve, where we'll be dicussing these books with other members of the PEP community. Suggestions for titles to be featured may be sent to: erinhildebrandt@yahoo.com, with the subject line "Books." |
SYNOPSIS In response to rampant obesity, the U.S. government declares a war on junk food. Authorities investigate salt addicts. Candy wrappers and barbeque grills are confiscated as paraphernalia. Pre-employment urine screenings test for illicit food traces. Fast-food felons receive ten-year federal prison sentences. Insulin is outlawed because legislators want to avoid sending mixed messages about sugar abuse. Police are charged with corruption for doughnut possession. Military forces are dispatched to Africa to destroy chocolate-producing cocoa fields. To discourage street gangs like the Ice Cream Crew and the Hot Dog Homeboys, officials post Neighborhood Weight-Watch signs in suburbs across the nation. JUNK is a riotous exploration of prohibition. The novel unfolds through the eyes of disparate characters who collide with hilarious and harrowing results: Officer Justin Bailey a cop torn between public safety and common sense Billy Sweet a legitimate baker turned black-market profiteer Reverend Moe Goodman a food-abuse counselor with a gun and a mission Paulina a teenage convict in an exercise boot camp Kyle Frankfurt a bloated junk food junkie hell-bent on eating himself to death Farah C. Forbes a Tammy Faye wannabe who despises Willy Wonka George Mabry one of seven American diabetics allowed to use insulin The Candy Man a psychotic smuggler who will murder to keep his product illegal Sugar a hyperactive Doberman with a taste for confections and blood Lest anyone think that it's all a dark fantasy, JUNK is peppered with poignant "mockuments" from the War on Junk Food, including court records, news articles, and letters from prison all culled from actual drug-war headlines and documents. |
Under The Influence The Disinformation Guide to Drugs Edited by Preston Peet In the latest of the hugely successful Disinformation Guide series, editor Preston Peet assembles a "dream team" of former police officers, government agents and officials, physicians, investigative journalists, researchers, commentators, dissidents and academics to definitively cast aside the myths and misinformation perpetrated by a series of US administrations and their allies to not only finance a never-ending War On Some Drugs, but demonstrably cause the very problems they supposedly are committed to eradicating. # Pioneering attorney Richard Glen Boire on the unconstitutional governmental attempt to impose conditions on our minds, or what he terms "cognitive liberty." # Former counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Eric Sterling describes how he helped craft the anti-drug legislation that brought about mandatory minimum drug sentencing, and now works to reform the very laws he helped write. # Investigative journalist Daniel Forbes exposes how State and Federal government officials and anti-drug warriors conspired to subvert the democratic process, using taxpayer money to counter citizens' initiatives and defeat a treatment (rather than incarceration) state ballot initiative. # Director of the leading U.S. drug policy reform organization, the Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan A. Nadelmann on how the public outcry for an end to the war against marijuana has never been so loud, while former High Times editor and author Steven Wishnia explains why marijuana will not be legalized in the near future despite those calls for reform. # Former New Jersey State Police detective lieutenant and Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (L.E.A.P.), Jack Cole, who spent 12 years working as an undercover narcotics cop, on how drug prohibition only exacerbates any social problems associated with drugs and empowers the very drug lords targeted by anti-narcotics operations while ensuring that it will mainly be the lowest level criminals who do prison time as a result of those operations. # African American activist Clifford Wallace Thornton on how the War on Some Drugs has destroyed countless black and other minority neighborhoods, giving voice to some of those who are wasting away behind bars right now for petty drug offenses. # Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner under George H. W. Bush, on how the huge profits from the illicit drug trade ensures that the War on Some Drugs will continue, as it props up banks, corporations and even large parts of many nations' economies. # Former High Times Executive Editor Peter Gorman on how DEA agents in the U.S. are arresting people for importing perfectly legal but highly hallucinogenic drugs, and on how the Pentagon is profiting off the War on Some Drugs in South America, playing a duplicitous but deadly shell game called the Andean Initiative. Researcher and author Bill Weinberg describes first-hand the damage to people and the environment as a result of the poisons and war brought to the jungles of Colombia for the U.S.-backed War on Drugs. # Village Voice columnist Cynthia Cotts on the business complexities for the legal drug lords dealing tons of cocaine and opiates inside the U.S., operating in plain sight with U.S. government approval. # Stanislav Grof, M.D., a psychiatrist with almost fifty years of experience in research of non-ordinary states of consciousness, interviews Albert Hoffman, the discoverer and first experimenter of LSD. # Psychedelic researcher and professor Rick Doblin on how the U.S. government has used lies and propaganda about MDMA to scare legislators and the public into supporting the unnecessary war against MDMA and the parties and raves where it is most often used. # Federal government drug warriors barring poor students from receiving financial aid if they have any drug offenses and the growing student movement opposing them; the treasonous actions by those behind the scenes designing and driving drug prohibition from day one; pharmaceutical companies such as Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer and many more, knowingly pushing untested, unnecessary and often deadly medications on the public; using a powerful psychedelic African root to treat opiate addiction; forcing prisoners to take drugs to make them sane enough to stand trial; angry armed marijuana activists ready to secede from the nation; what it's like to live on the streets of NYC strung out and targeted by narcotics officers these and many more topics are covered inside Under The Influence: The Disinformation Guide To Drugs. Contributors include Paul Krassner, Rick Doblin, Mike Gray, Lonny Shavelson, Daniel Forbes, Steve Wishnia, Cynthia Cotts, Dr. Stanislav Grof, Daniel Pinchbeck, Paul Armentano, Jacob Sullum, Peter Dale Scott, Ethan Nadelmann, Catherine Austin Fitts and Peter Gorman, Editor Preston Peet is a New York City-based writer, editor, musician, actor, DJ, activist and adventurer. A regular contributor to High Times magazine and web site, the editor of the controversial web site DrugWar.com and a columnist for New York City's premier punk rock newspaper, The New York Waste, he has been published in a variety of publications both in print and on-line on a wide variety of topics, paying particular attention to the War on Some Drugs and Users. Under The Influence The Disinformation Guide to Drugs Edited by Preston Peet Disinformation Books * October 2004 Oversized Softcover * 312 pages * ISBN 1-932857-00-1 * $24.95 (US) |
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Do you believe that the "War" on Drugs is "winnable"?!? |
September's Featured Selection |
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"Under The Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs", edited by Preston Peet, is a fascinating collection of articles and essays from a variety of perspectives on the drug war. The overall result is a powerful examination of the status quo in our nation's war on drugs. No one can read this without learning something new, and without being inspired to say -- enough is enough. There are better ways! ~ Bill Hildebrandt |
