Book description
Everything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and
salvia-turns out to be wrong
Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan
Grim will take you on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the
U. S.-from the agony (the huge DEA bust of an acid lab in an abandoned
missile silo in Kansas) to the ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and
music festivals). Along the way, Grim discovers some surprising
truths. Did anti-drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did
acid really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak years ago?
Did our Founding Fathers-or, better yet, their wives-get high just as
much as we do?
- Traces the evolution of United States's long and twisted
relationship with drugs
- Gives surprising answers to questions such as: how did heroin
become popular, when did the meth epidemic peak, and has LSD gone
the way of Quaaludes
- Based on solid reporting and wide-ranging research-including
surveys, reports, historical accounts, and more
Not since Eric Schlosser ventured underground to marijuana's black
market in Reefer Madness has a reporter trained such a keen eye
on drugs and culture. A powerful and often shocking history of one of
our knottiest social and cultural problems, This is Your Country on
Drugs leads you on a profound exploration of what it means to be
an American.
RYAN GRIM is the Huffington Post's senior
congressional correspondent and has written for Slate,
Rolling Stone, Harper's, and the Washington
Post.
