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

Name: Home Grown Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
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ISBN: 9781469613727

ISBN-10: 1469613727

ISBN-13: 9781469613727

Edition: 2014

Authors: Isaac Campos

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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 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 marijuana could instantly trigger madness and violence in its users, and the drug was outlawed nationwide…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Isaac Campos is assistant professor of history at the University of Cincinnati.