[FRIAM] New book by Mike Agar

[Stephen Guerin]

Willie Nelson's recent public statement regarding being caught with a bag of
Marijuana: 

"It's a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana instead of a bag of spinach. I'd be
dead by now." 

-S


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Agar [mailto:magar at anth.umd.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:48 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] New book by Mike Agar
> 
> Thanks guys. Soon to be featured on remainder tables in a 
> convenience store near you. 
> 
> 
> On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Wow, that's cool!  Congrats, Mike!
> 	
> 	--Doug
> 	
> 	
> 	On 10/3/06, Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com > wrote:
> 
> 		Hey, I just noticed on Amazon that Mike's new 
> book is out!
> 		http://tinyurl.com/ogn79 <http://tinyurl.com/ogn79> 
> 		
> 		Book Description:
> 		Dope Double Agent is a war on drugs story, one 
> that starts in the 60s and only
> 		ends with the last lines of the book. More than 
> this, it is the story of a young
> 		Berkeley student--and occasional drug user--who 
> turns into an insider expert in
> 		the drug war with a personal agenda to subvert 
> and correct it. He checks in as a
> 		heroin patient, works the streets of New York, 
> dips into worlds of PCP and LSD, 
> 		and seeks the sources of crack, heroin and 
> ecstasy. The delusions of the
> 		experts, the public and the politicians amaze 
> him and make him think the double
> 		agent job will be easy. Instead it is 
> impossible. He fails, spectacularly so on 
> 		such hallowed ground as the National Academy of 
> Sciences and the National
> 		Institutes of Health. Come behind the scenes 
> and watch the drug policy emperor
> 		march along for decades thinking he wears a new 
> suit of clothes. 
> 		
> 		It looks like it is a little cheaper on Lulu Press.
> 		http://tinyurl.com/eqlku
> 		
> 		-Steve
> 		
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