The war we never fought : the British establishment's surrender to drugs /: the British establishment's surrender to drugs. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Hitchens.
• Other Names: Hitchens, Peter, 1951-
• Contents: FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Preface; Part One The Secret Capitulation; 1 Cannabis is a cause; 2 How to sink, giggling, into the sea; 3 Psychiatry is not an exact science; 4 The real purpose of classification â#x80;#x93; a better image for cannabis; 5 No use appealing to God. Try John Stuart Mill?; 6 Cannabis and violence; 7 What about alcohol and tobacco, then?; 8 The Cabinet gets it wrong; 9 Enter Richard Crossman; 10 Jim Callaghanâ#x80;#x99;s last stand; Part Two The Search for Soma; 11 Aldous Huxley; 12 The left casts off its puritan garments. 13 The mysterious spread of cannabis14 Jaggerism is in vented; 15 Bloomsbury takes over Britain via the airwaves; 16 Steve Abrams steps upto explain; 17 The long march â#x80;#x93; Wootton and after; 18 Widdecombe unfair; 19 Dame Ruth Runciman and the liberal establishment; 20 Legislation on the beat â#x80;#x93; Brian Paddick; 21 The great red herring â#x80;#x93; â#x80;#x98;medical marijuanaâ#x80;#x99;; 22 Freeing up or freeing down?; 23 Some notes onharm reduction and rehabilitation; 24 The demoralisation of Britain; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 363.450941; Drug traffic -- Great Britain; Drug control -- Great Britain; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Drug control; Drug traffic; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441197160; 1441197168; 1283855305; 9781283855303
• Related ISBNs: 9781441173317; 1441173315
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.