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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...

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...

Towards a Less Fucked Up World

Nick Riotfag

A crucial resource for sober and non-sober folks alike, Towards a Less Fucked Up World: Sobriety and Anarchist Struggle explores the connections between intoxication and different types of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...