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Clinging to Failure: The Rise and Continued Life of U.S. Drug Policy

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Bertram Eva, Blachman Morris, Sharpe Kenneth, and Andreas Peter, Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xiv + 347 pages. $17.95 paper.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Kevin F. Ryan
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Law & Society Review , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , 1998 , pp. 221 - 242
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Copyright © The Law and Society Association, 1998. All Rights Reserved

Footnotes

Gratitude is due to Bob Granfield for helpful comments on earlier versions of this essay, to Larry Wentzell for his research assistance.

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