Getting high marijuana through the ages /
"This engaging book traces the global history of marijuana, reaching back thousands of years. Noted historian John Charles Chasteen follows the use of the drug since Neolithic times, which makes marijuana among the first domesticated plants. Surprisingly, though, only infrequently has it been u...
| Main Author: | Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter One: Getting High. Trouble with the Police
- Meet the Cannabis Plant
- Chapter Two: American Century. The Early Years
- The Marihuana Tax Act, 1937
- Rise and Fall of the Counterculture
- Drug War, Culture War
- News Flash
- Chapter Three: Atlantic World. Hemp and Rum, Strategic Resources
- Mexico, and a Mystery
- Colombia and Jamaica
- Brazil and the African Connection
- Africa, South of the Congo
- Chapter Four: Medieval Hashish. Wine versus Hashish
- Hashish in Muslim Society
- God's Unruly Friends
- The Assassin Legend
- Not for Everybody
- Chapter Five: Asian Origins. Historic India
- The Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes
- The Silk Road and Beyond
- The Earliest Horizon
- Chapter Six: Epiphanies.