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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campos, Isaac
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Marijuana > Mexico.
Drug traffic > Mexico.
Drug control > Mexico.
Marijuana > Mexique.
Drogues > Trafic > Mexique.
Lutte antidrogue > Mexique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Drug control
Drug traffic
Marijuana
Mexico
Mexiko
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 331 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780807882689
0807882682
9781469601809
146960180X

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