[PDF] We Sell Drugs eBook

Author : Suzanna Reiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2014-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520280784

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This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied in the growing economic clout of its pharmaceutical industry. We Sell Drugs is a study grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the coca-leaf and coca-derived commodities market stretching from Peru and Bolivia into the United States. More than a narrow biography of one famous plant and its equally famous derivative products—Coca-Cola and cocaine—this book situates these commodities within the larger landscape of drug production and consumption. Examining efforts to control the circuits through which coca traveled, Suzanna Reiss provides a geographic and legal basis for considering the historical construction of designations of legality and illegality. The book also argues that the legal status of any given drug is largely premised on who grew, manufactured, distributed, and consumed it and not on the qualities of the drug itself. Drug control is a powerful tool for ordering international trade, national economies, and society’s habits and daily lives. In a historical landscape animated by struggles over political economy, national autonomy, hegemony, and racial equality, We Sell Drugs insists on the socio-historical underpinnings of designations of legality to explore how drug control became a major weapon in asserting control of domestic and international affairs.

Author : Jamie Reidy
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0740788868

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Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary. This comedic expose traces Reidy's experiences from Pfizer training to life as the "V-Man," when Reidy became Pfizer's number-one drug rep during the Viagra craze. With equal parts self-confidence and self-mockery, Reidy takes the reader on a hilarious romp through pharma-culture while revealing the controversial side of the drug industry. From viewing a circumcision to gaining a doctor's rapport to providing insight on why doctors choose to prescribe Drug X over Drug Y, and from how to bargain "sigs" and "scripts" to why the Viagra pill is shaped as a diamond, Reidy discloses everything. A witty, behind-the-scenes look at an industry that touches everyone in America with a prescription, Hard Sell uncovers truths about the pharmaceutical industry you'd rather not know and practices you'd like to believe weren't employed. Hard Sell has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.

Author : Scott Jacques
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226164083

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When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere—even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools—and teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers who have their own culture and code, distinct from their urban counterparts. In Code of the Suburb, Scott Jacques and Richard Wright offer a fascinating ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. Drawing on fieldwork among teens in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, they carefully parse the complicated code that governs relationships among buyers, sellers, police, and other suburbanites. That code differs from the one followed by urban drug dealers in one crucial respect: whereas urban drug dealers see violent vengeance as crucial to status and security, the opposite is true for their suburban counterparts. As Jacques and Wright show, suburban drug dealers accord status to deliberate avoidance of conflict, which helps keep their drug markets more peaceful—and, consequently, less likely to be noticed by law enforcement. Offering new insight into both the little-studied area of suburban drug dealing, and, by extension, the more familiar urban variety, Code of the Suburb will be of interest to scholars and policy makers alike.

Author : Anne Rooney
Publisher : Arcturus Pub
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781848376892

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"This series takes an in-depth look at some of the major issues and crises that are on the front pages of today's newspapers. Each book looks at the historical background to the questions and offers balanced reporting of the situation and several solutions to the problem. Features include timelines, maps and primary sources"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Kenny K
Publisher : Kumo & Company Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2017-08-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781775029519

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The first book in the How to Sell Cocaine series. How To Sell Cocaine is the first textbook in the world that teaches drug dealers how to become a professional at it. There are no schools on this topic so we are educating people through the form of this book. This book will teach you how to run a successful drug organization and will teach you the ins and outs of the drug business. We want to teach drug dealers the proper fundamentals so that they start off on the right foot. We want to give everyone a solid foundation to build upon. We'll show you a business system that you can use to reach your goals faster. Our hope is that someday you'll be able to exit the game and make it legit. We hope you make a lot of money on your journey. Our wish is to see you get out of the game with your money and your life intact. In this industry, the knowledge is strictly guarded among the elite few, this makes it so the rest of the dealers have to figure it out on their own. However, the learning curve is so steep that many die or end up in jail before they learn a thing, our job is to prevent that. This book gives an overview of the drug business and explains how this industry works, it's easy to read and can be read in 1 day. What we recommend is to implement as you learn so that you improve your circumstances. WARNING: "THIS BOOK IS INTENDED FOR THE USE OF ADULTS OVER THE AGE OF 18 AND CONTAINS GRAPHIC WORDS WHICH DEPICT VIOLENCE AND ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. THIS BOOK CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR SOME READERS. THE AUTHOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANYTHING THE READER DOES AFTER READING THIS BOOK. READER'S DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY."

Author : Matt Taibbi
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2022-10-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781682193419

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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically-minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make money and b) avoid prison. Each rule shapes a chapter of this fast-paced outlaw tale, all delivered in Huey Carmichael's deliciously trenchant argot. Here are a few of them: No guns but keep shooters. Stay behind the white guy. Don't snitch. Always have a job. Be multi-sourced. Get your money and get out. Part edge-of-the-seat suspense story, part how-to manual in the tradition of The Anarchist Cookbook, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing is as scintillating as it is subversive. Just reading it feels illegal.

Author : Ira Brant Sommers
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781560728207

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This book examines women's participation in the cocaine/crack economy of New York City. All the women are or were long-term drug dealers, not those who casually dealt drugs. In order to be included in the authors' study, a person had to have sold drugs for at least two years. Many of the respondents were involved in drug distribution for considerably longer periods. Thus, the voices heard here are of those who had substantial drug selling careers. The authors' seek to describe the lives of women drug dealers -- not so much from their point of view, as from the women's own. In the research undertaken, they sought to listen to the women and understand the cultural perspectives through which they created their lives. Thus, the women are represented as responsive subjects and present their world as close as possible to how they saw it. Throughout the book, the women describe their experiences through their own vernacular.

Author : Ben Westhoff
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 080214795X

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A four-year investigation into the world of synthetic drugs—from black market factories to users & dealers to harm reduction activists—and what it revealed. A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. “A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,” writes Ben Westhoff. “These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs” —and all-too-often tragically lethal. Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice—and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe—were all originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, making the drugs’ effects impossible to predict. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He tracks down the little-known scientists who invented these drugs and inadvertently killed thousands, as well as a mysterious drug baron who turned the law upside down in his home country of New Zealand. Westhoff visits the shady factories in China from which these drugs emanate, providing startling and original reporting on how China’s vast chemical industry operates, and how the Chinese government subsidizes it. Poignantly, he chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the United States and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand. From its depths, as Westhoff relates, are emerging new strategies that may provide essential long-term solutions to the drug crisis that has affected so many. “Timely and agonizing. . . . An impressive work of investigative journalism.” —USA Today “Westhoff explores the many-tentacled world of illicit opioids, from the streets of East St. Louis to Chinese pharmaceutical companies, from music festivals deep in the Michigan woods to sanctioned ‘shooting up rooms’ in Barcelona, in this frank, insightful, and occasionally searing exposé. . . . Westhoff’s well-reported and researched work will likely open eyes, slow knee-jerk responses, and start much needed conversations.” —Publishers Weekly “Our 25 Favorite Books of 2019” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Best Books of 2019” —Buzzfeed “Best Nonfiction of 2019” —Kirkus Reviews “50 Best Books of 2019” —Daily Telegraph “Best Nonfiction Books of 2019” —Tyler Cowen “Best Books of 2019” —Yahoo Finance

Author : Bruce A. Jacobs
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1999-04-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781555533878

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This starkly revealing book explores the crack cocaine trade from the candid perspectives of sellers themselves.

Author : Jill Sherman
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1616133414

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This title examines one of the world's critical issues, drug trafficking. Readers will learn the historical background of this issue leading up to its current and future impact on society. Drug farmers, producers, smugglers, dealers, and users are discussed in detail, as well as law enforcement against the illegal drug trade. Also covered are legalization of drug use, drug trafficking organizations, programs and organizations against illegal drugs, drug trafficking related to the global economy, and the cost of the U.S. war on drugs. Engaging text, informative sidebars, and color photographs present information realistically, leaving readers with a thorough, honest interpretation of drug trafficking. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Issues is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.