| Description |
1 online resource (x, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cannabis and the psychoactive riddle -- Cannabis and the colonial milieu -- The discovery of marijuana in Mexico -- The place of marijuana in Mexico, 1846-1920 -- Explaining the missing counterdiscourse I: the science of drugs and madness -- Explaining the missing counterdiscourse II: people, environments, and degeneration -- Did marijuana really cause "madness" and violence in Mexico? -- National legislation and the birth of Mexico's war on drugs -- Postscript: Mexican ideas move North. |
| Summary |
Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial fiber and symbol of European empire. But, Campos demonstrates, as it gradually spread to indigenous pharmacopoeias, then prisons and soldiers' barracks, it took on both a Mexican name--marijuana--and identity as a quintessentially "Mexican" drug. A century ago, Mexicans believed that marijua. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marijuana -- Mexico.
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Marijuana. |
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Mexico. |
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Drug traffic -- Mexico.
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Drug traffic. |
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Drug control -- Mexico.
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Drug control. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Campos, Isaac. Home grown. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012 9780807835388 (DLC) 2011041766 (OCoLC)756594368 |
| ISBN |
9780807882689 (electronic book) |
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0807882682 (electronic book) |
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9781469601809 (electronic book) |
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146960180X (electronic book) |
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