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"""A fascinating and terrifying account of two businessmen who tried to achieve the American dream, dutifully testing their product against potential illegality but still getting snared by murky legal applications. Engrossing.""-- ""The Culture Buzz"" ""Colorful and distressing. . . . A fascinating case study of America's drug laws.""-- ""Publishers Weekly"""

"""Rubin, a former narcotics prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, has written a period-defining study of federal drug prosecutions at the beginning of the synthetics boom. . . . His play-by-play of the legal battle that followed Ritchie and Galecki's indictment is meticulously annotated and chilling.""-- ""Reason"" ""A fascinating and terrifying account of two businessmen who tried to achieve the American dream, dutifully testing their product against potential illegality but still getting snared by murky legal applications. Engrossing.""-- ""The Culture Buzz"" ""Colorful and distressing. . . . A fascinating case study of America's drug laws.""-- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Bizarro shines a spotlight on the surrealistic story of the original Analogues Act and provides the reader with some inkling of what the supercharged version being contemplated now could deliver. It is a brisk and thoughtful addition to the literature of drug policy.""-- ""Drug War Chronicle"""

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Jordan S. Rubin is a journalist and a former prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, where he was assigned to the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.

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