This dissertation examines the gradual process by which Mexico came to prohibit marijuana in 1920, thereby giving birth to a war on drugs in that country. Using diverse sources ranging from colonial administrative documents to scientific publications, literature, lithography, an…
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The purpose of the study was to determine differences in behaviorally disordered marijuana and non-marijuana abusing adolescents referred to family therapy. One hundred and eighty-eight male and female adolescents, as well as caretakers, were compared examining archival data obt…
Although a broad and detailed history of illegal cannabis trafficking networks exist, it remains a relatively understudied group in the current legal context. Prior research has been limited in three crucial aspects: it has been geographically limited to single states or jurisdi…
This dissertation focuses on historic changes in public perception of narcotic use and abuse from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. From the 1840s to the outbreak of Civil War, politicians, physicians, the general public, and state and federal government remained …
This is a history of artists and the ways they were policed in Michigan from the 1950s to the 1970s, as told primarily through the experiences of John Sinclair, a poet, writer, journalist, artist, organizer, and activist who served prison time for violations of the state narcoti…
The opioid epidemic constitutes one of the worst drug crises in the history of U.S. State-level policies, in general, have done little to prevent prescription opioid abuse. A noteworthy exception to other clinical efforts to curb opioid abuse is marijuana. Despite preliminary ev…