»Reefer Madness

Eric Schlosser has collected three powerful essays on US policy, on marijuana, migrant workers, and pornography into a collection entitled Reefer Madness". Although his bias in each essay becomes quite clear in the conclusion of each piece, he maintains an even tone while setting out the research, and he recounts the horrific information he uncovers: two-faced American enforcement, which looks the other way when faced with the humiliating treatment of Mixtec workers who cross the border to provide us with cheap fresh fruit, but work almost in a vengeful wrath trying to stem the flow of pornography.
He links three topics as components of the seamy underbelly of the American economy, but the policy aspect is what really fascinates me: steely American Justice saving us from the evils of marijuana and from porn, but nowt when the large corporations face labour problems.

salim filed this under books at 11h29 Monday, 16 January 2006 (link) (Yr two bits?)