Getting high: marijuana through the ages 9781442254695, 9781442254701, 1442254696
Getting high : Trouble with the police ; Meet the cannabis plant -- American century : The early years ; The Marihuana T
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English Pages viii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Year 2016;2015
Table of contents :
Getting high : Trouble with the police
Meet the cannabis plant --
American century : The early years
The Marihuana Tax Act, 1937
Rise and fall of the counterculture
Drug war, culture war
News flash --
Atlantic world : Hemp and rum, strategic resources
Mexico, and a mystery
Colombia and Jamaica
Brazil and the African connection
Africa, south of the Congo --
Medieval hashish : Wine versus hashish
Hashish in Muslim society
God's unruly friends
The assassin legend
Not for everybody --
Asian origins : Historic India
The prehistoric Eurasian Steppes --
The silk road and beyond
The earliest horizon --
Epiphanies.
