Looking for a book on the rise of cocaine/crack, preferably in NY.
My diary desu
>>8238037
Dark Alliance by Gary Webb. he literally wrote the book on crack. But it's all in LA, because that's where it was first marketed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Alliance
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/13/investigative_reporter_gary_webb_who_linked
http://www.laweekly.com/news/ex-la-times-writer-apologizes-for-tawdry-attacks-2614004
Freakonomics
>>8238037
Chasing the Scream; it covers the drug war and the introduction and rise of heroin, crack and other hard drugs.
Very good stuff, bit harrowing at times.
>>8240136
>hard drugs
Could not be, but probably it ispure ideology.