Drug Wars
Marez, Curtis![Drug Wars](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/914/9141838/CHSBZCOP039141838.jpg)
Inaugurated in 1984, America's "War on Drugs" is just the most recent skirmish in a standoff between global drug trafficking and state power. From Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars in China to the activities of Colombia's drug cartels and their suppression by U.S.-backed military forces today, conflicts over narcotics have justified imperial expansion, global capitalism, and state violence, even as they have also fueled the movement of g...