Cannabis : global histories /
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2021]
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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.