Harry G. Levine is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from Brandeis University. His research and writings have focused on drugs, alcohol, and food in historical context. His work has received seven distinguished scholarship awards for historical and sociological research about addiction, alcohol prohibition and regulation, international drug policy, crack cocaine, the war on drugs, and racial bias in marijuana arrests. - from qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~hlevine/