new internationalist
issue 140 October 1984
In this issue
 photo by Claude Sauvageot |
Taking Issue -Ashok Mitra
DEALING WITH DREAMS
According to the official view, drugs are a plague visited
on us by traffickers and Third World farmers. In reality we are all drugtakers.
Chris Brazier explores the myths about ‘the drug problem’.
Dangerous connections - the facts about drugs
Living
with poppies
The West is unlikely to persuade Third World drug
farmers to grow other crops. Richard Kazis explains why.
Our daily fix
Troth Wells looks at the drugs we use every day.
Anything that will help
with the pain
Thai people tell Debbie Taylor how they cope.
Visions from beyond
From Indian shamans to hippie gurus, great claims have been made for visionary
drugs. Huw Richards weighs them up.
Mama Coca the medicine
Bolivian peasants dream of building their own pharmaceutical industry
based on cocaine. Mike Rose reports.
The myth of the evil weed
Andrew Scott argues that the laws against cannabis make no sense.
Fragments of drug history
Government smugglers and dope-smoking Presidents — historical excerpts
in words and pictures.
Dealing with the drug
problem
There must be a better way. . . Don Aitken shows that
international drug policies don't work, and Dave Turner explains why
we must understand that not all drug users are addicts.
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