Dealing Death and Drugs, Beto ORourke
Dealing Death and Drugs, Beto ORourke
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Dealing Death and Drugs
The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico

Author: Beto O'Rourke, Susie Byrd

Narrator: Andrea Gallo, Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 2 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/05/2019


Synopsis

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 Juarez 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. They argue that marijuana prohibition has created a black market so profitable that drug kingpins are billionaires and drug control doesn't stand a chance. Using Juarez as their focus, they describe the business model of drug trafficking and explain why this illicit system has led to the never-ending slaughter of human beings. Their position: the only rational alternative to the War on Drugs is to end to the current prohibition on marijuana. "If Washington won't do anything different, if Mexico City won't do anything different, then it is up to us - the citizens of the border who understand the futility and tragedy of this current policy first hand - to lead the way." - from the Afterword

About Beto O'Rourke

Beto O’Rourke is a fourth-generation Texan, born and raised in El Paso where he has served as a small business owner, a city council representative and a member of Congress. He founded and currently leads Powered by People, a Texas-based organization that works to expand democracy and produce Democratic victories through voter registration and direct voter engagement. Beto is married to Amy O’Rourke and together they are raising Ulysses, Molly and Henry in El Paso’s historic Sunset Heights.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jake

It’s really hard for me to pass up an easy 100-page policy pamphlet, especially one by an up-and-coming politician that addresses an issue that will only see more debate in the next couple of years — drug cartels and marijuana legalization. This book is a perfect example to me of how public policy sh......more

Goodreads review by Dan

this was a great little book! it is short but well researched and too the point. it reminded me a lot of Are Prisons Obsolete? and i think the authors offer it in a simliar vein. i am particularly impressed that it is coming from city politicians in el paso. those working along the border came to th......more