Forbidden Drugs
Philip Robson
Oxford University press 1999
ISBN: 0 19 2629557

Accurate account of what we know about recreational drugs. Includes details on the effects and dangers of individual drugs as well as good policy analysis and discussion.

Heroin: The failure of prohibition and what to do now
Francis Wilkinson (forward by Sir David Ramsbotham)
Centre for Reform 2001 (www.cfr.org.uk tel: 0207 222 5121)
ISBN: 1 902622 28 6

Detailed look at the public health and crime reduction benefits of effective regulation of the heroin market, by former Chief Constable Francis Wilkinson (also wrote the leaf and the law – see below).

Drugs: Dilemmas and choices
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Gaskell 2000
ISBN: 1901242447

Written by a multi-disciplinary group of experts, this book aims to stimulate informed debate about the possible alternatives to current failings.

High Time for Reform: Drug Policy for the 21 st Centuary
Edited by Selina Chen and Edward Skidelsky.
Social Market Foundation 2001
ISBN: 1874097895

A collection of ten critical essays on UK and international drug policy by a range of experts from the fields of history, psychiatry, social policy, philosophy and economics. It brings to bear a range of innovative ideas and perspectives on the problems facing Britain’s policy on drugs.

Drugs: Cultures, Controls & Everyday life
Nigel South
Sage 1998
ISBN: 0761952357

An overview of drugs and society. Topics addressed include: the debate over prohibition versus legalization; drug and dance cultures; drug use amongst young women; images of "race" and drugs; the strategy of policing drugs and controlling drug users; and drug control and sport.

From War to Work: Drug treatment, social inclusion and enterprise
Rowena Young
The Foreign Policy Centre 2002
ISBN: 1903558077

A detailed examinations of the drugs issue presenting a vision of how drug use can be safely managed, based on lessons from around the world.

Illicit Drugs: use and control
Adrian Barton
Routledge 2003
ISBN: 0415281725

This book moves beyond this single issue approach and locates illicit drug use in its wider context, with chapters on: the history of illicit drug use measuring the 'problem' legal and medical responses to illicit drug use the illicit drugs market drugs, crime and trends in drug policy. Drawing information from wide-ranging sources, Adrian Barton illuminates the complex nature and broad impact illicit drug use carries in its wake and provides an overview of the contemporary state of the drug 'scene'. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers working in the area of drugs and society.

After the War on Drugs: Tools for Debate
Steve Rolles
Published 2007
ISBN: 0955642809

Winning the war on drugs: to legalise or not?
Richard Stevenson
Institute of Economic Affairs 1994
ISBN: 0 255 36330 3

A more academic examination of the arguments for and against legalisation. Features contributions from Julius Merry, Peter Reuter, Micheal Farrel, and John Strang.

Drugs, Trafficking and Criminal Policy: The scapegoat strategy
Penny Green
Waterside press 1998
ISBN 1 872 870 33 3

Academic examination of international drug trafficking, and the failure of enforcement. focuses on scapegoating low level players.

Drug Crazy: How we got into this mess and how we can get out
Mike Gray
Random House 1998
ISBN 0 679 43533 6

A well told account of the drug war.

Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
Dan Baum
Little Brown 1996
ISBN 0-316-08446-8

Another well researched and argued critique of the US war on drugs.

White-out: The CIA, Drugs and the Press
Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St.Clair
Verso 1999
ISBN 1-85984-258-5

An astonishing book that gives a detailed chronicle of the involvement of the CIA in various covert operations involving drugs, including links with the mob, former Nazi’s, Afgan heroin lords, and Colombian cocaine barons. Exhaustively researched and referenced to silence any “cries” of conspiracy theory. Also examines CIA efforts to silence the media and stifle critical coverage.

Drug War Heresies
Robert MacCoun, Peter Reuter
Cambridge University Press 2001
ISBN: 052179997X (or hardcover 0521572630)

This book provides the first multi-disciplinary and non-partisan analysis of how the United States should decide on the legal status of, cocaine, heroine, and marijuana.

Lies, Damed Lies and Drug War Statistics
Mattew Robinson & Renee Scherlen
Published 2007
ISBN: 079146976X

After Prohibition: An adult approach to Drug Policies in the 21 st Century
Editor: Timothy Lynch with foreword by Milton Friedman
Published: 2001
ISBN: 1-882577-94-9

Twelve versions of papers given at a similarly titled conference held at the Cato Institute. Wide variety of chapters from “The War the Police Didn’t Declare and Can’t Win” to “Effects of the Drug War”.

Drugs and Security in the Caribbean
Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
Published 1997
ISBN: 0-271-01719-8

'A comprehensive study of the drug dilemma in the Caribbean that reveals the severity of the threat illegal drug trafficking poses to the small countries of that region'.
Drugs and Security in the Caribbean

The Political Economy of Narcotics
Julia Buxton
Published 2006
ISBN: 1842774468

'Regimes around the world have upheld a prohibitionist stance toward narcotics. The US has led this global consensus, enforcing recognition of international narcotics conventions and laws. Vast resources are pumped into the 'war on drugs'. But in practice, prohibition has been an abject failure. Narcotics use continues to rise, while technology and globalisation have made a whole new range of drugs available to a vast consumer market. Where wealth and demand exist, supply continues to follow. Prohibition has failed to stem consumption and production, criminalised social groups, impeded research into alternative medicine and disease, promoted violence and gang warfare, and impacted negatively on the environment'.
The Political Economy of Narcotics

Legalize This! The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs
Douglas Husak
Published 2002
ISBN: 1859843204

'There are currently nearly half a million drug offenders incarcerated in US jails, more than the entire EU prison population. Added to the financial consequences of current drug policy there is the enormous human cost. Police corruption, organized crime, contempt for the law and drugs made dangerous because they are illegal and thus not subject to proper controls are other consequences of current drug policies. Politicians from all sides of the political spectrum are now beginning to ask: is it worth it? In arguing that criminalization is unjust, Douglas Husak explodes many of the myths that surround drug use'.
Legalize This! The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs

Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics
Curtis Marez
Published 2004
ISBN: 0816640602

'Inaugurated in 1984, America's "War on Drugs" is just the most recent skirmish in a standoff between global drug trafficking and state power. From Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars in China to the activities of Colombia's drug cartels and their suppression by U.S.-backed military forces today, conflicts over narcotics have justified imperial expansion, global capitalism, and state violence, even as they have also fueled the movement of goods and labor around the world'.
Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics

The Globalisation of Addiction
Bruce Alexander
Published 2008
ISBN: 0199230129

'This book explores the problem of addiction using a nontraditional approach...a refreshing look at an age-old problem.'
The Globalisation of Addiction

McMafia: Crime without Frontiers
Misha Glenny
Published 2008
ISBN: 0224075039

'A journey through the new world of international organised crime. For three years Glenny recorded stories from Ukraine, Dubai, Brazil, Canada and many more'.
McMafia: Crime without Frontiers

Drug Control in a Free Society
James Bakalar & Lester Grispoon
Published 1988
ISBN: 0521357721

Modernising Australia's Drug Policy
Alex Modak & Tim Moore
Published 2002
ISBN: 0868404829

Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
William McAllister
Published 1999
ISBN: 0415179904

Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations
Peter Andreas & Ethan Nadelmann
Published 2008
ISBN: 0195341953

Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate
Eric Goode
Published 1997
ISBN: 0312163835

Drug War Facts
Douglas MVay
Published 2006
ASIN: B0011355C8

The Irish War on Drugs
Paul Mahony
Published 2008
ISBN: 0719079026

Drugs and Justice
M Battin, E Luna, A Lipman, P Gahlinger, D Rollins, J Roberts, T Booher
Published 2008
ISBN: 0195321014

Mama Coca
Antonil
Published 1978
ISBN: 0861660005

Forces of Habit
David T Courtwright
Published 2002
ISBN:0674010035

The Smoke Rings: Tobacco, Money and Multicultural Politics
Peter Taylor
Published 1984
ISBN: 0394532139

The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Always Almost do Better
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Published 2009
ISBN: 1846140390

The Emperor wears no clothes: Hemp and the Marijuana conspiracy
Jack Herer
Green Planet Company
ISBN: 1878125028

The classic history of cannabis prohibition.

The Leaf and the Law: The case for the legalisation
Francis Wilkinson
Centre for reform 2001 ( www.cfr.org.uk tel: 0207 222 5121)
ISBN 1 902622 20 0

Detailed analysis of current cannabis policy, how we got here and the options for reform, from the former Chief Constable of Gwent. Includes analysis of international conventions.

Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century
Mike Jay
Dedalus Press 2000
ISBN 1-873982-48-8

A brilliant history of the origins of modern prohibitionist drug policy. A fascinating account of drug culture before prohibition.

The Pursuit of Oblivion
Richard Davenport-Hines
Phoenix Press 2001
ISBN: 0753813718

"Intoxication is neither unnatural nor deviant,"quotes Hines, prizewinning writer and regular TLS contributor, at the start of his compendious chronicle, The Pursuit of Oblivion . This pretty much sums up his objective take on drug consumption although he is far less impartial on the policies surrounding the trade and legislation of the drugs industry. This fascinating book examines the history of changing Western social attitudes to drugs, their place in our culture and what they reflect of it.

High Society
Ben Elton
Published 2002
ISBN: 0552150533

Dirty Dealing
Peter Lilley
Kogen Page LTD 2000
ISBN: 0749440341

Dirty Dealing is the first book to truly expose the awesome scale and scope of global money laundering and its infiltration into the world's legitimate business structures. Peter Lilley lifts the lid on this murky and frightening underworld to reveal how highly organised and sophisticated criminal organisations and terrorist groups are seriously undermining the economies of many countries, their financial systems, governments and businesses. Full of incredible stories, facts and figures, it has been extensively revised and includes information on:

• the funding of international terrorism;
• major national and international criminal groups;
• the impact of the Internet and 'cyber laundering';
• anti-money laundering strategies for all types of businesses