- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 Drugs 101 -
2 Alcohol -
3 Cocaine -
4 Opium -
5 Cannabis -
6 Tobacco -
7 Crackdown -
8 Amphetamines -
9 Alternative Consciousness -
10 Nixon’s War -
11 Reagan’s War -
12 Supply Side -
13 Kingpin -
14 Plan Colombia -
15 Catastrophic Success -
16 Our Man in Lima -
17 Bolivian Backlash -
18 El Narco Mexicano -
19 Fear and Loathing in Central America -
20 The Global War -
21 The War over the War on Drugs -
22 Law Enforcement and Incarceration -
23 Cannabis Revisited -
24 Big Tobacco -
25 Psychedelics 2.0 -
26 The Most American Drug -
27 Opioid Nation - Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward
- Notes
- Gratitude
- Index
The Global War
The Global War
- Chapter:
- (p.307) 20 The Global War
- Source:
- Drugs and Thugs
- Author(s):
Russell Crandall
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter talks about how U.S. anti-drug enforcement achieved a fully global reach in the post-9/11 “Age of Terror.” It refers to opaque anti-drug missions that first piloted in Latin America and then exported to Thailand, Canada, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, at times without the knowledge or cooperation of the governments concerned. It also provides an overview of a landmark piece of legislation passed by the Congress in 2006 that expanded the scope of American officials' presumptive license abroad, giving U.S. counter-narcotics agents legal standing to pursue narcotics and terrorism crimes committed anywhere in the world. The chapter cites the explosion of cocaine consumption in Europe over the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century as the key motivation for the new legislation in the global war on drugs. It mentions three Malian nationals who had been arrested in their home country by U.S. federal agents and extradited to the United States under the 2006 rule.
Keywords: U.S. anti-drug enforcement, anti-drug missions, counter-narcotics agents, cocaine consumption, narcotics
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 Drugs 101 -
2 Alcohol -
3 Cocaine -
4 Opium -
5 Cannabis -
6 Tobacco -
7 Crackdown -
8 Amphetamines -
9 Alternative Consciousness -
10 Nixon’s War -
11 Reagan’s War -
12 Supply Side -
13 Kingpin -
14 Plan Colombia -
15 Catastrophic Success -
16 Our Man in Lima -
17 Bolivian Backlash -
18 El Narco Mexicano -
19 Fear and Loathing in Central America -
20 The Global War -
21 The War over the War on Drugs -
22 Law Enforcement and Incarceration -
23 Cannabis Revisited -
24 Big Tobacco -
25 Psychedelics 2.0 -
26 The Most American Drug -
27 Opioid Nation - Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward
- Notes
- Gratitude
- Index
