Reddit reviews Chasing the Scream

• Operation Mind Control, Bowart
  
• Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, Hoffman
  
• The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, McCoy
  
• Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs , Hari

All of these also apply to alcohol, not just the first point, except that alcohol is also physically addictive and causes social harms that cannabis does not - so aside from 'cultural' reasons, why is alcohol still legal? Are illegal drugs in general illegal because of the harm they do to our bodies and society, or for another reason?

Here are a list of titles that are not 'VICE' articles that I can recommend to you if you are genuinely interested in learning more about the topic of drug prohibition (they are all quite compelling in my view, you can check the credentials of the authors if you want):

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

Drugs - Without the Hot Air: Minimising the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs by David Nutt

The Legalization of Drugs (For and Against) by Douglas N. Husak.

The War on Drugs: A Failed Experiment by Paula Mallea

I can recommend more titles if you like, but I think these are the easiest to digest.

Hadn't heard of this. Cheers.

Here's the Amazon link.