Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Drugs, Politics, and Culture
From mind-altering drugs for pleasure to the push for pharmaceutical drugs, while examining this course of history and its effects on the world, take advantage of these resources. Includes PDFs (require Adobe Reader).
Read Works
Read Works: Drug War
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about problems created by the drug trade in America and in other countries. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Life in the 1980s
Read about the advent of cable television in the 1980s and the many stations that spawned. It was also the time of drug wars, the idea that greed was good, and the beginning of the scourge of AIDS.