Hemp: American history revisited : the plant with a divided history /

Deitch offers a look at major events in U.S. and world history as they influenced, and as they may have been influenced by, the cultivation and use of hemp. The author discusses the differences between hemp grown for use as a popular smoke, the stronger type known as marijuana, and hemp as it has be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deitch, Robert, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Algora Pub., ©2003.
Temas:
Marijuana > United States > History.
Hemp > United States > History.
Marijuana > États-Unis > Histoire.
Chanvre > États-Unis > Histoire.
SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction.
Hemp
Marijuana
United States
History
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  • Hemp's importance to mankind's early development
  • Men's early knowledge of cannabis as medicine
  • Success breeds imitations
  • The British contribution
  • The age of British colonization
  • The growth of infant America
  • Hemp in the colonies
  • Religion in colonial America
  • The use of cannabis, other than as hemp
  • The split in British American relations
  • The war for independence begins
  • Why hemp was not a major revolutionary issue
  • The war ends and hemp use declines
  • Reorganization under the constitution
  • Johnny Appleseed
  • The crusade against marijuana
  • The old man of the mountain
  • Religion & alcohol: the beginnings of alcohol prohibition
  • Andrew Jackson v. John Quincy Adams
  • Hemp and presidential politics
  • Building the railroad
  • King cotton
  • The British outlaw slavery
  • The 1860 election: a foregone conclusion
  • The ironclads
  • The Chinese opium wars
  • Prejudice rears its ugly head
  • The economic depression of the 1890s
  • The re-emergence of the prohibitionist movement
  • The Teddy Roosevelt presidency
  • Passage of the Harrison anti-narcotics act
  • Teddy's final shot at corporate domination
  • The Ludlow massacre
  • The 1912 election: a turning point in American history
  • Republican party advocates alcohol prohibition
  • Wilson's comeback
  • The roaring 20s
  • America emerges from WWI as an economic powerhouse
  • The rejuvenated republican party
  • The scandalous Harding administration
  • New York repeals enforcement of prohibition
  • The Coolidge administration
  • America's most prosperous decade
  • Looking bad in the eyes of the world
  • The folly of prohibition
  • The need to outlaw marijuana
  • The 1928 election
  • The stock market crash
  • Proof of prohibition's destructive nature
  • The "experts" explain the Great Depression
  • The bonus army
  • The 1932 presidential election
  • The great social experiment ends in failure
  • Going off the gold standard
  • On the brink of annihilation
  • Passage of the marijuana tax act
  • The effects of outlawing the use of hemp
  • New billion dollar crop
  • Race relations in America
  • "The mezz"
  • The Laguardia committee report
  • The beatnik generation
  • The Eisenhower
  • Kennedy era
  • An overview of Anslinger's bureaucratic career
  • Vanguard of social change
  • Riot at Chicago's 1968 democrat convention
  • The catastrophic Nixon years
  • Marijuana tax act ruled unconstitutional
  • Woodstock and operation intercept
  • War is hell and people die
  • The law prevents knowledgeable use
  • The 1972 presidential commission on marijuana
  • Legalization vs decriminalization
  • The president's commission on marijuana report
  • Nixon officially declares government's "war on drugs"
  • 1972 presidential election
  • New York takes a step backwards
  • States begin adopting decriminalization
  • Alaska upholds personal rights
  • The 1976 presidential election
  • New Mexico's medical marijuana trial
  • The Mexican drug war
  • The terrible 1980s
  • Rejuvenation of America's drug war (1980's)
  • The Columbia tragedy
  • The first George Bush presidency
  • The medicinal marijuana issue
  • Opiates, the most effective pain killer
  • Cocaine: a reliable local anesthetic
  • Cops and robbers: Hollywood's influence
  • Today's realities are different than 1937
  • We're wasting our natural resources
  • The benefits of using hemp today
  • Anything oil can do, hemp can do better
  • Politics as usual?: a condemnation of political realities
  • Economics: hardly an exact science
  • Forced morality: attempting to change human nature.

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