Book Review

Mexico's drug cartels are exciting analytical and journalistic interest. Here, we review three new titles.

We read a classic text in marijuana policy reform, and see just why it is a classic.

The literature of the Mexican drug war and the border continues to expand. Here, we look at four recent titles.

The new documentary "Prohibition," by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, aired this week on PBS. We thinks it's well worth watching, especially for drug reformers.

We review John Gibler's To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War and find it very powerful and disturbing indeed.

The BONG HiTS 4 JESUS case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and now, an Oregon professor has written all about it.

A trio of academic experts have come up with a drug policy book you're going to want to read, even if only to argue with it. Especially to argue with it.

If you care at all about what's going on in Afghanistan, The Wars of Afghanistan is a must read.

"The Power of the Poppy: Harnessing Nature's Most Dangerous Plant Ally" is reviewed and found most interesting.

We review a book on Colombia and US drug policy seen through a lens focused on American contractors and Colombian politicians kidnapped by the FARC.