Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo and China. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceI. The Secret Capitulation1. Cannabis is a Cause2. How to Sink Giggling into the Sea3. Psychiatry is Not an Exact Science4. The Real Purpose of Classification5. No Use Appealing to God. Try John Stuart Mill6. Cannabis and Violence7. What about Alcohol and Tobacco then?8. The Cabinet gets it Wrong9. Enter Richard Crosman10. Jim Callaghan's last StandII. The Search for Soma11. Aldous Huxley12. The Left Casts of its Puritan Garments13. The Mysterious Spread of Cannabis14. Jaggerism is Invented15. Bloomsbury Takes Over Britain via the Airwaves16. Steve Adams Steps Up to Explain17. The Long March-Wootton and After18. Widdicombe Unfair19. Lady Runciman - Who is She?20. Legislation on the Beat - Brian Paddick21. The Great Red Herring - Medical Marijuana22. Freeing Up or Freeing Down23. Some Notes on Harm Reduction and Rehabilitation24. The Demoralisation of BritainIndex

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo and China. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceI. The Secret Capitulation1. Cannabis is a Cause2. How to Sink Giggling into the Sea3. Psychiatry is Not an Exact Science4. The Real Purpose of Classification5. No Use Appealing to God. Try John Stuart Mill6. Cannabis and Violence7. What about Alcohol and Tobacco then?8. The Cabinet gets it Wrong9. Enter Richard Crosman10. Jim Callaghan's last StandII. The Search for Soma11. Aldous Huxley12. The Left Casts of its Puritan Garments13. The Mysterious Spread of Cannabis14. Jaggerism is Invented15. Bloomsbury Takes Over Britain via the Airwaves16. Steve Adams Steps Up to Explain17. The Long March-Wootton and After18. Widdicombe Unfair19. Lady Runciman - Who is She?20. Legislation on the Beat - Brian Paddick21. The Great Red Herring - Medical Marijuana22. Freeing Up or Freeing Down23. Some Notes on Harm Reduction and Rehabilitation24. The Demoralisation of BritainIndex

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo and China. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceI. The Secret Capitulation1. Cannabis is a Cause2. How to Sink Giggling into the Sea3. Psychiatry is Not an Exact Science4. The Real Purpose of Classification5. No Use Appealing to God. Try John Stuart Mill6. Cannabis and Violence7. What about Alcohol and Tobacco then?8. The Cabinet gets it Wrong9. Enter Richard Crosman10. Jim Callaghan's last StandII. The Search for Soma11. Aldous Huxley12. The Left Casts of its Puritan Garments13. The Mysterious Spread of Cannabis14. Jaggerism is Invented15. Bloomsbury Takes Over Britain via the Airwaves16. Steve Adams Steps Up to Explain17. The Long March-Wootton and After18. Widdicombe Unfair19. Lady Runciman - Who is She?20. Legislation on the Beat - Brian Paddick21. The Great Red Herring - Medical Marijuana22. Freeing Up or Freeing Down23. Some Notes on Harm Reduction and Rehabilitation24. The Demoralisation of BritainIndex