"Fascinating, well researched and finely honed...This is a must read."--Judge Peggy F. Hora, 'California Bench' Once upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and "hop heads" gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins 'Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams', Jill Jonnes's ground-breaking history of illegal drugs in America. Jonnes vividly traces our first turn-of-the-century drug epidemic, successfully quelled, and then follows the story into the postwar era: starting in the jazz world of the northern cities and moving through the "flower power" 1960s to the cocaine and crack explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Jill Jonnes provides a highly detailed and enormously readable history of American drug use in the 20th century, making the important point that narcotics were a problem long before their naive glorification in the 1960s. Without ever sounding preachy, she calls for re-stigmatizing illegal drugs. "The societal costs of widely available drugs clearly outweigh whatever pleasure and insight they provide to those who can handle them," she concludes. "Just Say No" may have seemed corny, but there was something to it.
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"This sweeping, highly colorful, riveting narrative resurrects a largely forgotten history of drug use and abuse in the U.S... Beginning with Chinese opium dens, patent medicines and early, ostensibly anti- drug Hollywood movies portraying druggies as glamorous hedonistic rebels, she moves on to jazz-age Harlem, 1950s Beat hipsters and then to the 1960s counterculture... Her entertaining chronicle includes side trips to 1930s Paris, the N.Y.C. mob underworld, Marseille's Corsican, CIA-abetted drug network if the 1950s and '60s and today's Colombian cocaine cartels. It culminates with a compelling argument against legalization or decriminalization." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Jonnes randomly mixes a wealth of facts with a large body of rumor and innuendo without ever asking how to separate the two. I was particularly struck by her suggestion that cocaine-induced rampages by African American men in the South led to one police department's decision to upgrade their weapons, with a citation to Musto's more accurate history in the endnote. Musto notes that fear of cocaine was generated and sustained by wild rumors, racism, and reports of coked-up minorities raping white women and able to withstand .32 caliber bullets, leading one force to actually switch to .38s in order to effectively kill black drug users.
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This book is a great read if you want to know about the interesting history of drugs in the United States. However, Ms. Jonnes provides "answers" at the end of her book that are not consistent with the material she previously exposed. For example, she says that one solution is to stigmatize drugs; yet in the sixties the older generation was wholly antidrug and that did not stop the counterculture from using them. She also does not seem to want to acknowledge that alcohol use is another important part of the drug epidemic (even if it is now legal, remember Prohibition days), indeed, most people start with alcohol as a pathway to illegal drugs, not with marijuana. Also, she wholly refuses to accept that there could actually be people who use illegal drugs in a recreational way and that this does not affect their lives, work or relationships, something I find disturbing because in reality this is quite common. So, all in all, read this book for its greatly researched and detailed history but form your own opinion about the current situation and how it should be handled.
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Good, but somewhat preachy
5. Mai 2000
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This book is a great read if you want to know about the interesting history of drugs in the United States. However, Ms. Jonnes provides "answers" at the end of her book that are not consistent with the material she previously exposed. For example, she says that one solution is to stigmatize drugs; yet in the sixties the older generation was wholly antidrug and that did not stop the counterculture from using them. She also does not seem to want to acknowledge that alcohol use is another important part of the drug epidemic (even if it is now legal, remember Prohibition days), indeed, most people start with alcohol as a pathway to illegal drugs, not with marijuana. Also, she wholly refuses to accept that there could actually be people who use illegal drugs in a recreational way and that this does not affect their lives, work or relationships, something I find disturbing because in reality this is quite common. So, all in all, read this book for its greatly researched and detailed history but form your own opinion about the current situation and how it should be handled.
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Good History--Lousy Policy
19. Juni 1997
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Jonnes does an excellent job of recounting the history of illegal drugs in American society. But her own data contradicts her policy recommendations.
For example, she strongly supports an enlarged federal war on drugs because she says legalization failed.
Yet by her own figures, there is a higher % of the population now who are cocaine and opiate addicts,
than in 1900 when it was legal. Her figures: 0.96% mid 1990's, 0.46% 1900.
Jonnes refuses to consider Alcohol a drug problem, and hides from her own data that most cocaine users never become a problem to society in any way.
Read the history, but don't let the author tell you what this history means for the future. Jonnes seems unable to extend her own trend lines.
For example, she strongly supports an enlarged federal war on drugs because she says legalization failed.
Yet by her own figures, there is a higher % of the population now who are cocaine and opiate addicts,
than in 1900 when it was legal. Her figures: 0.96% mid 1990's, 0.46% 1900.
Jonnes refuses to consider Alcohol a drug problem, and hides from her own data that most cocaine users never become a problem to society in any way.
Read the history, but don't let the author tell you what this history means for the future. Jonnes seems unable to extend her own trend lines.
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Drug Policy 101
31. Dezember 2000
Von Christopher B. Jonnes
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It's frightening to consider that most of the politicians and bureaucrats responsible for establishing illegal drug policy in America will have never read Jill Jonnes' book. Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams should be mandatory reading for all such people, not necessarily because of the conclusions she reaches--there tends to be dispute in these--but because of the incredible wealth of historical information she has packed in it.
One surprise for the average reader of Hep-Cats is the rich history of illicit drug use in America. Drug use connotes Timothy Leary and the turbulent sixties, or the more recent crack cocaine epidemic. But in reality, numerous waves of drug abuse-illegal and otherwise--have swept the country, each with their own unique origins, consequences, and solutions. One of the benefits of studying history, is the opportunity to learn from past mistakes and avoid repeating them. It appears that America has been repeating its errors in using and controlling drugs for centuries. We're a liberal, open-minded society of fun-loving risk-takers. We delude ourselves into believing the latest and greatest drug has no consequences, or that we're at least of strong enough character to master it. The inevitable result is the vicious cycle of addiction (or dependency), crime, finger pointing, and policy experimentation.
Does the answer lie in prevention, treatment, education, law enforcement, stricter sentencing, or all of the above? We don't always agree, but Hep-Cats provides a thorough and accurate background, a wonderful educational foundation on which policymakers could base decisions and hopefully control arguably the single largest contributor to crime in America: drug abuse. But this is no textbook. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully constructed, and very well-written, Hep-Cats is an entertaining read for all. -Christopher Bonn Jonnes, author of Wake Up Dead.
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