Dead on Delivery. (book reviews)

The Nixon administration began the first of many federal wars on drugs, each growing progressively more ambitious and expensive. That waged by the Reagan and Bush administrations was the most aggressive and costly of all.

Between 1980 and 1989, the number of adult arrests for illegal drug sale or manufacture increased from about 103,000 to more than 404,000 a year. Arrests for illegal possession increased from about 368,000 to more than 843,000. Meanwhile, between fiscal 1980 and fiscal 1990, federal spending for drug control rose (in constant dollars) from $1.5 billion to