The Official Sunderland AFC Annual by Rob Mason

The Official Sunderland AFC Annual by Rob Mason

Drugs are pervasive in our everyday lives across cultures around the world. At the same time, they present one of the thorniest problems of twenty-first century policy, connected with concerns about crime, security, and public health. The global prohibition system, established a century ago, is widely seen to be failing and over the last decade alternative approaches have started to proliferate in some regions of the world, notably the Americas. Rethinking Drug Laws presents a radical intellectual reappraisal of how the international drug control system works, where it came from, and the possibilities for alternative futures.
Drawing on an innovative interdisciplinary approach, the book develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for understanding how drug control functions, presents original archival research on the origins of drug prohibition, and explains ways that we can develop a better 'politics of drugs' that can reanimate drug law reform. Central to the book is the claim that to move beyond existing ways of seeing the global drug problem, we need to escape Western-centric thinking. In the Asian Century, will it be China that becomes the most significant player in shaping the future of drug policy and drug control?

Rob Mason is Sunderland AFC's official club historian. He has written 40 books on the club, edited their official publications for over 30 years and won multiple awards, including many 'Programme of the Year' accolades, as well as being 'Editor of the Year'. He first watched Sunderland in 1967, is an honorary member of the club's Former Players' Association and has been featured in broadcasts around the world talking about the Black Cats.

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ISBN 13	9781915879295
ISBN 10	1915879299
Title	The Official Sunderland AFC Annual
Author	Rob Mason
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grange Communications Ltd
Year published	2023-09-30
Number of pages	64
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