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

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 146960180X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781469601809 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0807882682 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780807882689 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 331 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:mar.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:mar.12.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cannabis and the psychoactive riddle -- Cannabis and the colonial milieu -- The discovery of marijuana in Mexico -- The place of marijuana in Mexico, 1846-1920 -- Explaining the missing counterdiscourse I: the science of drugs and madness -- Explaining the missing counterdiscourse II: people, environments, and degeneration -- Did marijuana really cause "madness" and violence in Mexico? -- National legislation and the birth of Mexico's war on drugs -- Postscript: Mexican ideas move North.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.