How the US launched yet another war without end

Chasing The Scream. The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. By Johann Hari. Bloomsbury Circus, €17.

A worker harvests cannabis plants at a plantation near Nazareth: cannabis is permitted in Israel for medicinal purposes. Picture: Getty

Just over a century ago, a war erupted that destroyed lives around the world and still defines our perspective today. In 1914, the same year that the Great War broke out, ...