Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

Will Hall

Now in a second edition! The Icarus Project and Freedom Center's expanded 52-page guide gathers the best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and...

Cannabis Chassidis

The Ancient and Emerging Torah of Drugs

Yosef Leib

Is Marijuana kosher? Yes, of course it is. But the better question is: If I am going to get higher than high, isn't there some useful, traditional guidance about how to best do so? If not, then...

Border Wars

Tom Barry

Post-9/11 security anxiety. A renewed war on drugs. Inaction on immigration. Economic collapse. All of it makes for a combustible brew, and the fire is burning hottest on the Southwestern...

The Femicide Machine

Sergio González Rodriguez

Book 11 in Semiotext(e)’s Intervention Series! From the book: “In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous ecology mutated into a femicide machine: an apparatus...

Dealing Death and Drugs

The Big Business of Dope in the US and Mexico

Beto O'Rourke

El Paso city representatives Beto O'Rourke and Susie Byrd have been powerless bystanders as the murders attributed to the drug war in Juárez—El Paso’s sister city on the United States and Mexico...

Acid Christ

Ken Kesey, LSD and the Politics of Ecstasy

Mark Christensen

From the literary wonder boy to the countercultural guru whose cross-country bus trip inspired The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, this candid biography chronicles the life and times of...

To Die in Mexico

Dispatches from Inside the Drug War

John Gibler

Combining on-the-ground reporting and in-depth discussions with people on the frontlines of Mexico's drug war, To Die in Mexico tells behind-the-scenes stories that address the causes and...

Sober Living for the Revolution

Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics

Gabriel Kuhn

Straight edge has persisted as a drug-free, hardcore punk subculture for twenty-five years. Its political legacy, however, remains ambiguous—often associated with self-righteous macho...

The Strength of the Wolf

The Secret History of America's War on Drugs

Douglas Valentine

The Strength of the Wolf presents for the first time a definitive history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) from its birth in 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. Carefully...