Home grown : marijuana and the origins of Mexico's war on drugs

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Home grown : marijuana and the origins of Mexico's war on drugs

Title remainder

marijuana and the origins of Mexico's war on drugs

Statement of responsibility

Isaac Campos

Creator

• Campos, Isaac

Subject

• Drug control -- Mexico
• Drug traffic
• Drug traffic -- Mexico
• Marihuana
• Drug control
• Marijuana -- Mexico
• Mexico
• Mexiko
• Marijuana

Language

eng

Summary

Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with 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 in 1920. This book is a guide for anyone who hopes to understand the deep and complex origins of marijuana's controversial place in North American history

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

363.450972

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV5840.M4

LC item number

C363 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography