series of counter-narcotics training exercises conducted by the United States Army and several Asian countries Civil forfeiture in the United States Class war Cognitive liberty Crack epidemic Drugs in the United States Harm reduction Latin American drug legalization Philippine Drug War Prison-industrial complex Race war Recreational use of drugs War on Gangs Covert activities and foreign policy Allegations of CIA drug trafficking Golden Crescent Golden Triangle Harry J. Anslinger Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act CIA transnational anti-crime and anti-drug activities Plan Colombia UMOPAR Air Bridge Denial Program Government agencies and laws Continuing Criminal Enterprise Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act Office of National Drug Control Policy United Nations Drug Control Programme References Further reading Daniel Burton-Rose, The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry. Common Courage Press, 1998. Stephanie R. Bush-Baskette, "The War on Drugs as a War on Black Women," in Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko (eds.), Girls, Women, and Crime: Selected Readings. SAGE, 2004. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press. New York: Verso, 1998. Mitchell Earlywine, Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Kathleen J. Frydl, The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Tony Payan, "A War that Can't Be Won." Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2013. Preston Peet, Under the Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs. The Disinformation Company, 2004. Thomas C. Rowe, Federal Narcotics Laws and the War on Drugs: Money Down a Rat Hole. Binghamton, NY: Haworn Press, 2006. Eric Schneider, "The Drug War Revisited," Berfrois, November 2, 2011. Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1911. Dominic Streatfeild, Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography. Macmillan, 2003. Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs. New York: Verso, 2004. Government and NGO reports National Drug Threat Assessment 2009 from the United States Department of Justice War On Drugs: Legislation in the 108th Congress and Related Developments, a 2003 report from the Congressional Research Service via the State Department website The Report of the Canadian Government Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs—1972 External links Narco News — news site focusing on drug war in Latin America Drug Policy Facts Drug War Distortions Major Studies