The phenomenon of psycho-active drugs, and our reactions to them, is one of the most fascinating topics of the social history of mankind. Starting with an analysis of the 'policy of fear' in which law enforcement is 'haunted' by drug money, Drugs and Money offers a radical reconsideration of this highly contentious issue.
In this intriguing book, Petrus C. van Duyne and Michael Levi expose an ever-unfolding series of problems:

• the proliferation of mind-influencing substances
• the complications of international drug regulation
• the interaction...

Drugs and Money covers a diverse range of subjects, starting with an analysis of the 'policy of fear' in which law enforcement is 'haunted by drug money'. In this intriguing book, Petrus C. van Duyne and Michael Levi introduce the reader to an ever-unfolding series of problems: mind control, mind-influencing substances, the complications of international drug regulation and the interaction between markets and actors, with the consequent amassing of huge amounts of crime-money. The social and economic aspects of crime-money are reconsidered and described in terms of the threat they pose to the...