Big Deal: The Politics of the Illicit Drugs Business -

Anthony Henman, Roger Lewis, Tim Malyon

Pluto Press

1985

212 páginas

7h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780745300085

The contributors to Big Deal look at: the politics of the drug trade; cocaine and US imperialism in Latin America; the involvement of the mafia; women and addctions; the pharmaceutical industry and illicit drugs; the structure of the heroin market; drug users and unemplyment. The authors expose the financial interests involved, the graft and corrpution behind the scams, and the hypocrisy of governmental demands for prohibition.