Condemned

LAWYER MAKES CASE FOR LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS

The ringleader of one of the nation's most notorious drug cartels is a media celebrity as he stands trial for his crimes - unaware there's a contract out on his head...

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A junkie, suspected of aiding in the rape and murder of her own daughter, all in exchange for a fix, is despised and ridiculed in the media...

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A Senator risks his political career fighting for a bill that would legalize all drugs, believing that the key to winning the drug war is the elimination of illegal trafficking...

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These stories are presented as fiction in John Nicholas Iannuzzi's Condemned, but the issues they represent are a daily reality in the war against drugs. Iannuzzi's ripped-from-the-headlines style comes from his experience as one of New York City's most prominent criminal attorneys. With unflinching candor, Iannuzzi exposes the rampant corruption and unscrupulous behavior at every level of the drug trade - from street junkies to DEA agents - and reveals to readers the tangled web of interdependence illegal drug trafficking creates.

"We are repeating what Franklin Roosevelt called the Stupendous Blunder of Prohibition," says Iannuzzi. "Laws that were intended to regulate and eliminate allegedly evil substances have actually created an industry of corruption and violence."

In Condemned, Iannuzzi asserts that by failing to legalize drugs, our government is following the same mistaken path it did with alcohol Prohibition. In fact, he took the title of the book from a well-known quote from Santayana: "Those who fail to remember the past are condemned to repeat it." By legalizing and regulating drugs in the same way that alc