Beware Euphoria

George Fisher is the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he has been teaching evidence, prosecution practice, and criminal legal history since 1995. He began practice as a Massachusetts prosecutor and later taught at Boston College Law School, Harvard Law School, and Yale Law School.

• List of Illustrations and TablesPrologueIntroduction: Monogamy's Paradox PART I: MORAL ROOTS Chapter One: Sex, Drunkenness, and the Euphoria TabooChapter Two: The Gin CrisisChapter Three: Prohibition's Rise, Its Fall, and the Reign of Social DrinkingChapter Four: Medical Drug Use Versus Recreational Abuse PART II: RACIAL MYTHS Chapter Five: Race in the Dens and Miscegenation MythsChapter Six: Crazed Racial Coke FiendsChapter Seven: Marijuana: Assassin of YouthChapter Eight: Monogamy's Demise?

In this polemical work Fisher takes exception to the view that the societal banning of opiates, psychedelics, and other drugs despite the acceptance of alcohol use is rooted in racism against Chinese, Mexican, and Black Americans...this well-written and well-argued book makes a strong case in favor of the author's position.