Getting high [electronic resource] : marijuana through the ages

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서명/저자사항	Getting high [electronic resource]: marijuana through the ages / John Charles Chasteen.
개인저자	Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- author.
발행사항	Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, [2016].
형태사항	1 online resource (viii, 157 pages) : illustrations.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- Getting high 9781442254695
ISBN	9781442254701 144225470X
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Chapter One: Getting High. Trouble with the Police -- Meet the Cannabis Plant -- Chapter Two: American Century. The Early Years -- The Marihuana Tax Act, 1937 -- Rise and Fall of the Counterculture -- Drug War, Culture War -- Chapter Three: Atlantic World. Hemp and Rum, Strategic Resources -- Mexico, and a Mystery -- Colombia and Jamaica -- Brazil and the African Connection -- Africa, South of the Congo River -- Chapter Four: Medieval Hashish. Wine versus Hashish -- Hashish Eaters -- God Unruly Friends -- The Assassin Legend -- Not for Everybody -- Chapter Five: Asian Origins. Historic India -- The Prehistoric Eurasian Steppes -- The Silk Road and Beyond -- The Earliest Horizon -- Chapter Six: Epiphanies.
요약	"This engaging book traces the global history of marijuana, reaching back thousands of years. Noted historian John Charles Chasteen follows the use of the drug since Neolithic times, which makes marijuana among the first domesticated plants. Surprisingly, though, only infrequently has it been used as a recreational drug. Instead, there is a vibrant spiritual dimension to its long history that has been continually ignored. Beginning with the familiar "outbreak" of the 1960s, Chasteen unearths successive layers of marijuana's history. Written with insight, clarity, sophistication, and good humor, this deeply informed work discusses the cultivation of cannabis and its many forms, including hemp, one of the world's principal fiber crops. After a tour of Latin America, Africa, India, and the Muslim world, Chasteen concludes that unlike alcohol marijuana has always flourished outside the mainstream. Its principal users have been creative outsiders of many kinds--mystics, artists, musicians, free thinkers, and spiritual seekers--as well as poor laborers attracted by its low cost. Marijuana, it seems, is a mind-expanding drug after all, and Chasteen explores its rich heritage with captivating insight." -- Publisher's description
일반주제명	Marijuana abuse --History. Marijuana --History. Marijuana Smoking --history History of Medicine POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
분류기호(NLMC)	HV 5822.M3C489g 2016
분류기호(DDC)	362.29
언어	영어
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