Revised for 2012, Safety First provides parents with the tools needed to evaluate and discuss strategies for protecting their teenagers from drug abuse. Since the original publication of the booklet, more than 300,000 copies have been distributed worldwide.

 

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Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico
Susie Byrd / Beto O'Rourke

The War on Drugs doesn’t work. This became obvious to El Paso City Representatives Susie Byrd and Beto O’Rourke when they started to ask questions about why El Paso’s sister city Ciudad Juárez has become the deadliest city in the world—8,000-plus deaths since January 1, 2008. Byrd and O’Rourke soon realized American drug use and United States' failed War on Drugs are at the core of problem. In Dealing Death and Drugs—a book written for the general reader—they explore the costs and consequences of marijuana prohibition.

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Protestival: Seattle Hempfest; a 20 Year Retrospective
Vivian McPeak

Seattle Hempfest: The World's Largest Cannabis Rally. A 20-year retrospective. Written by Vivian McPeak, Executive Director. A great book about the best Hempfest in the United States on its 20th anniversary. The book also includes a DVD "No Prison for Pot" in addition to  Photos of attendees and celebrity speakers.

 

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A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Ernest Drucker

When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years, Ernest Drucker makes the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic—a plague upon our body politic.

 

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