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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Campos, Isaac
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Marijuana.
Drug traffic.
Drug control.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Lutte antidrogue > Mexique.
Drogues > Trafic > Mexique.
Marijuana > Mexique.
Drug control > Mexico.
Drug traffic > Mexico.
Marijuana > Mexico.
Mexiko
Mexico.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469601809

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