UID:
almafu_9960950830202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (419 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780262366137
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0262366134
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9780262362061
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0262362066
Serie:
The MIT Press
Inhalt:
"A global history of cannabis that offers a broad, multicontinental examination of the roots and effects of cannabis policy and legalization efforts"--
Anmerkung:
Introduction. Breaking News: "Weed Kills Coronavirus" / James H. Mills and Lucas Richert -- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. Taming the Orient: France and the first global movement to medicalize cannabis -- Ganja and the government of India: Cannabis, excise, and colonial administration in the late nineteenth century -- Ganja madness: Cannabis, insanity, and indentured labor in British Guiana and Trinidad, 1881-1912 -- 1900s-1940s. Dagga: How South Africa made a dangerous drug, 1902-1928 -- Squaring a circle: Cannabis and the dubious legacy of the League of Nations -- A historical approach to the criminalization of marijuana use in Mexico -- Reefer madness past and present: Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, Mexico, and the United States -- 1950s-1960s. Smugglers from the East and travelers from the West: The hash trade and drug control in the building of the Afghan State -- Hashers don't read Das Kapital: East Germany, Socialist prohibition, and global cannabis -- Origins of cannabis prohibition in Nigeria and the Sixties -- Cannabis, counterculture, and criminals: The rise of cannabis smuggling in the Netherlands -- 1970s-Present. "We Smoke Flowers": On "Being High" in postrevolutionary Iran -- PRIDE International and drug war diplomacy: The parent movement's global battle against marijuana -- Sub Saharan Africa, cannabis, and contemporary drug policy -- Forces of necessity: The role of lay knowledge and advocacy in the remedicalization of British Cannabis, 1973-2004.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780262045209
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0262045206
Sprache:
Englisch
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