Bizarro (eBook)

The Surreal Saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured

Jordan S. Rubin (Autor)

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2023
278 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520387966 (ISBN)

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Inside a drug war so screwy that people don’t know what’s illegal—until it’s too late.
 
Bizarro is a page-turning tale of the unprecedented prosecution of Burton Ritchie and Ben Galecki, the Florida-based founders of a sprawling “spice” (synthetic cannabinoid) operation. With this book, journalist and former New York City narcotics prosecutor Jordan S. Rubin exposes a Reagan-era law called the Analogue Act, which targets dealers selling drugs that are “substantially similar” to controlled substances—an unwieldy law that produces erratic results in court.
 
Rubin brings readers deep inside the synthetic war, exploring how Ritchie and Galecki landed in its crosshairs and why one of the DEA’s own chemists may have been their best chance at freedom, until he was arrested too. This stranger-than-fiction narrative is backed by thousands of pages of court records and exclusive interviews with defendants, lawyers, law enforcement, celebrities, and more. Bizarro reveals the world of underground chemists making drugs faster than the government can ban them, dealers making millions in a gray market, and a justice system run amok.

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Contents

Intro: Bizarro

1. Humpty Dumpty’s Designer-Drug War 
2. Frozen Addicts, Emergency Powers 
3. Dr. Frankensteins 
4. Creating a Monster 
5. Controlling the Spice 
6. Team Player 
7. Ryan Goes West 
8. Summer Jam (Leaving Las Vegas) 
9. Come on in, Cosey 
10. Florida Sunshine 
11. Information Asymmetry 
12. Being Civil—at First 
13. The Right to an Attorney 
14. Clarence Thomas on Bath Salts 
15. Curious Animal 
16. Egalitarian Principles 
17. A Case about Drug Dealers 
18. Dynamite 
19. Worse Than Crack 
20. The Defense Calls Arthur Berrier 
21. Their Kind of Person 
22. Bizarre Relationships 
23. Tooth and Nail 
24. Synthetic Kings Crowned 
25. Mandatory Minimums over Zoom 
26. Devil’s Advocate 
27. Latest Front 
Outro: The Story Was Quite Clear 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Index 
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Schlagworte: analogue act • Bloomberg • Books on Criminal Law • Celebrities • court documents • Defendants • Drug War • florida law • kingpin drama • Law enforcement • Lawyers • Policy • Raegan era • synthetic drugs • true crime saga • truth behind the science • unconsitutional • underground chemists • victims
• ISBN-13: 9780520387966 / 9780520387966