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Cannabis : global histories / edited by Jim Mills and Lucas Richert.

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"Cannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book gathers together authors from the new wave of cannabis histories that has emerged in recent decades. It offers case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Other Authors: Mills, James H., 1970- (Editor), Richert, Lucas, 1979- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Cannabis > History.
Cannabis > Social aspects.
Cannabis.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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