Book Review

Four academic specialists on drug policy have come together to pen "Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know." It's a pretty handy primer.

Award-winning film maker Rick Ray turns his camera and his sharp eye on the ongoing medical marijuana wars with his 2012 documentary Lynching Charlie Lynch. It's quite good.

With The Lebanese Connection, global drug trade scholar Jonathan Marshall has made an important contribution to the literature -- not only of the drug trade, but also of the Middle East, terrorism, covert operations, and failed states.

We review "Drugs, Insecurity, and Failed States: The Problems of Prohibition," a new book from the very establishment International Institute for Strategic Studies.

If you're interested in Colombia, coca and cocaine, and leftist guerrilla armies, we have a book for you.

We review three books on various aspects of marijuana culture. There's some pretty good stuff there, too.

We review an important new book on the history of marijuana in Mexico that demands a revisionist look at the origins of Reefer Madness in America.

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.