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Johns examines the ineffectiveness of the US anti-drugs policy to accomplish its stated goal, the heightened social costs brought about by a "war" strategy, the socioeconomic context of drug use and drug trafficking, and the wider political implications of the policy.

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The bloody, mass sacrifices of the Aztec empire have been documented and decried since the 16th century when the Spanish began using violence to justify their own domination of the Mesoamerican Indian population.