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The Lindesmith Library was founded in 1995 and named after Professor Alfred Lindesmith of Indiana University, the first prominent scholar in the U.S. to challenge conventional thinking about drugs, addiction and drug policy. Its catalog contains more than 15,000 documents and videos.

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Cocaine Nation

Tom Feiling's Cocaine Nation is a shocking, in-depth study of the cocaine industry, taking the reader from the fields of Colombia to the streets of New York. Cutting through the myths about the white trade, this is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.

Cannabinomics

As we move toward a regulated and economically integrated cannbis trade, Christopher Glenn Fichtner, M.D., calls for a stakeholder-inclusive regulatory process. Cannabinomics reframes the marijuana debate and offers a new paradigm for public conversation on key drug policy isssues of our time.

A Voter's Handbook: Effective Solutions to America's Problems

Judge Jim Gray, author of the 2001 book Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It, is an outspoken critic of drug laws, especially in the state of California. In A Voter's Handbook, Judge Gray shows how we would be safer, healthier, better educated and more successful by implementing specific changes in our systems of criminal justice, healthcare, education and immigration.