Title: An interesting compendium of America and the world's most controversial drug
Review: Dominic Streatfield's "Cocaine" is illuminating and entertaining, even if it sometimes stalls. The book is, refreshingly, not a polemic, though it is obvious that Streatfield is in favor of legalization. This book is as much a powerful work of sociology, which gazes into the souls-won, lost and in limbo, affected by the drug. Appropriately, it is an indictment of the drug, as any book worth its weight must be, but the indictment is based on facts and shows the shallow tendency of American and European media to sensationalize and misinform the public about the drug. Definitely worth reading and considerably readable, Cocaine is a book that like its subject matter deserves a close examination.
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