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Home Grown : Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs /

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 a...

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Autor principal: Campos, Isaac
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.