Cannabis : global histories /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Mills, Jim (Editor), Richert, Lucas, 1979- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.