Professor Joseph F. Spillane is a professor in the History department at the University of Florida. He has published Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States1, co-authored A History of Modern Criminal Justice, and co-edited Federal Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and Practice and Prison Work: A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections. His most recent monograph, Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform, appeared in 2014 from the Johns Hopkins University Press.

OUTLINE:

(0:00) Studying the history of drugs

(10:18) Public perspective on drug history

(13:13) Talking to people as a historian

(18:14) History of cocaine in the US

(39:42) War on drugs

(52:52) Should drugs be legalized?

EPISODE LINKS:

Dr. Spillane’s website: https://josephspillane.wordpress.com/

Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States: https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_OQycfkoasC&pg=PP4&lpg=PP4&dq=spillane+cocaine&source=bl&ots=mgMZYcO0xW&sig=9NbNB1SK__lXopJORb26VswphSQ&hl=en&ei=hB1MTvK_FvCJsALB8Im9CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=onepage&q&f=false

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