Cannabis: global histories

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"A global history of cannabis that offers a broad, multicontinental examination of the roots and effects of cannabis policy and legalization efforts"--

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Full title :Cannabis : global histories / edited by Lucas Richert and James H. Mills.

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"A global history of cannabis that offers a broad, multicontinental examination of the roots and effects of cannabis policy and legalization efforts"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:xxxvi, 381 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262045209, 0262045206
oclc:on1204342766
LC Classification:HV5822.C3
Dewey Decimal:362.29/56109

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 postrevolut…