Bøger af Constantine Issighos

A retrospective look at the current drug prohibition, the author Constantine Issighos demonstrates the USA's drug policy as being ineffective, destructive and expensive, thus describing an "anatomy of failure." He examines the origins of the drug temperance movement to legislate public morality, which turned into the war on drugs. Yet, despite the ineffectiveness of the USA's policy, drug prohibition continues to cause massive human tragedy in our youth and among Latin America's coca plant growers. The author has witnessed the destructiveness of the DEA's mercenaries, the coca plant eradication and its effects on the life and health of the campesinos. Events described in this book are true stories, but this is not an autobiography of the author's experience as a contrabandist, smuggler, bootlegger, forger and corruptors of officials, per see. Although some details of the author's real life experiences under prohibition are brought forward, those are presented only to support certain important points against the present drug prohibition. The author shows that drug use, distribution, production and policies cannot be examined in isolation from the policies and practices of Drug Prohibition and the War on Drugs. Here the issue of drug prohibition is not treated as an academic subject, but as real life consequences and lessons that needed to be told. The focus of the lessons is simple, for the end of prohibition means the end of drug criminality. Religious puritanical moralists have a perpetual conflict in dealing with human relations that are not "immaculate" acts in any form. The imminent thread is that there is no limit to the moral erosion of humanity where the irrational becomes a routine practice.

This book is VOL. 18. The Amazon is in peril! Identifying the areas and level of the destruction of its ecosystem is not simply an academic issue, nor should it be treated as such. Hundreds of thousands of indigenous natives of the Amazon rain forest have been displaced from their traditional lands due to political and economic conflicts between hostile forces in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil. Indigenous communities have become marginalized by corrupt government policies and by war-driven forces, including narco-terrorists, unscrupulous national and international commercial interest and individual ignorance and arrogance. Yet, indigenous social mobilization is at its height, deriving their support from national and international NGO's, pro-active environmentalists groups such as the Greenpeace and individuals like you and I. The aim is to form a united front in the flight to save the rich biodiversity of the Amazon Rain forest and its inhabitants. This book and the entire Series is highly recommended for the whole family, environmentalists, elementary and middle school curriculum, community libraries and collectors of The Amazon Exploration Series.