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.
