Home grown
Subtitle: marijuana and the origins of Mexico's war on drugs
By: Isaac Campos
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780807835388
Subjects: Drug traffic; Marijuana; Drug control
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cannabis and the psychoactive riddle; title: Cannabis and the colonial milieu; title: The discovery of marijuana in Mexico; title: The place of marijuana in Mexico, 1853-1920; title: Explaining the missing counterdiscourse I: the science of drugs and madness; title: Explaining the missing counterdiscourse II: people, environments, and degeneration; title: Did marijuana really cause "madness" and violence in Mexico?; title: National legislation and the birth of Mexico's war on drugs; title: Postscript: Mexican ideas move North.