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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rubin, Jordan S., 1986- author.     Subjects     United States. Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986.     Drugs of abuse -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Criminal provisions.     Synthetic drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Criminal provisions.     Prosecution -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rubin, Jordan S., 1986- author.       by title:      Bizarro : the surrea...         MARC Display

Bizarro : the surreal saga of America's secret war on synthetic drugs and the Florida kingpins it captured / Jordan S. Rubin. by Rubin, Jordan S., 1986- author. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] Subjects United States. Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986.   Drugs of abuse -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Criminal provisions.   Synthetic drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Criminal provisions.   Prosecution -- United States. ISBN:  9780520387959 (cloth) : 80520387953 (cloth) Description:  267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  Intro : Bizarro -- Humpty Dumpty's designer-drug war -- Frozen addicts, emergency powers -- Dr. Frankensteins -- Creating a monster -- Controlling the spice -- Team player -- Ryan goes West -- Summer jam (leaving Las Vegas) -- Come on in, Cosey -- Florida sunshine -- Information asymmetry -- Being civil - at first -- The right to an attorney -- Clarence Thomas on bath salts -- Curious animal -- Meet Judge Jackson -- A case about drug dealers -- Dynamite -- Worse than crack -- The defense calls Arthur Berrier -- Their kind of person -- Bizarre relationships -- Tooth and nail -- Synthetic kings crowned -- Mandatory minimums over zoom -- Devil's advocate -- Latest front -- Outro : the story was quite clear. Requests:  0 Summary:  "How did Burton Ritchie and DEA Special Agent Claude Cosey wind up in federal prison, convicted as drug kingpins, after being indicted years later in three states and taken to trial three times? The answer lies in the weirdest chapter of the War on Drugs, a synthetic saga that's unfolding to this day. It all stems from a little-known Reagan-era law called the Analogue Act. The 1986 law bans substances that are "substantially similar" to controlled ones. But what does "substantially similar" mean? The law's amorphous standard has left people guessing about what's legal. Unlike the traditional war against heroin, cocaine, and other well-known drugs, when it comes to new synthetics, the government doesn't announce which ones it thinks are illegal before bringing charges. Making matters stranger, still, the DEA's own scientists haven't always agreed on what to ban. Indeed, a senior research chemist with the agency thought the spice Burton and Ben sold was legal"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 345.0277 Ru item being mended Add Copy to MyList

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