Cannabis

Cannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This book gathers together authors from the new wave of cannabis histories that has emerged in recent decades. It offers case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. It does so to trace a global history of the plant and its preparations, arguing that Western colonialism shaped and disseminated ideas in the nineteenth century that came to drive the international control regimes of the twentieth.

More recently, the emergence of commercial interests in cannabis has been central to the challenges that have undermined that cannabis consensus. Throughout, the determination of people around the world to consume substances made from the plant has defied efforts to stamp them out and often transformed the politics and cultures of using them. These texts also suggest that globalization might have a cannabis history. The migration of consumers, the clandestine networks established to supply them, and international cooperation on control may have driven much of the interconnectedness that is a key feature of the contemporary world.Contributors
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James H. Mills; Lucas Richert

Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century
1/ Taming the Orient: France and the first global movement to medicalize Cannabis
David Guba Jr.
 
2/ Ganja and the Government of India: Cannabis, Excise, and Colonial Administration in the Late Nineteenth-century
Peter Hynd
 
3/ Ganja Madness: Cannabis, Insanity, and Indentured Labor in British Guiana and Trinidad, 1881-1912
Jamie Banks
 
1900s-1940s
 
4/ Dagga: How South Africa made a Dangerous Drug, 1902-1928
Thembisa Waetjen
 
5/ Squaring a Circle: Cannabis and the Dubious Legacy of the League of Nations
Haggai Ram
 
6/ A Historical Approach to the Criminalization of Marijuana Use in Mexico
José Domingo Schievenini
 
7/ Reefer Madness Past and Present: Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, Mexico, and the United States
Isaac Campos
 
1950s-1960s
 
8/ Smugglers from the East and Travelers from the West: The Hash Trade and Drug Control in the Building of the Afghan State
James Bradford
 
9/ "Hashers Don't Read Das Kapital": East Germany, Socialist Prohibition, and Global Cannabis
Ned Richardson-Little
 
10/ Origins of cannabis prohibition in Nigeria and the Sixties
Gernot Klantschnig
 
11/ Cannabis, Counterculture, and Criminals: The rise of cannabis smuggling in the Netherlands
Stephen Snelders
 
1970s-Present
 
12/ "We smoke flowers": On "Being High" in Postrevolutionary Iran
Maziyar Ghiabi
 
13/ PRIDE International and Drug War Diplomacy: The Parent Movement's Global Battle Against Marijuana
Emily Dufton
 
14/ Sub-Saharan Africa, Cannabis, and Contemporary Drug Policy
Neil Carrier
 
15 / Forces of necessity: The role of lay knowledge and advocacy in the re-medicalization of British cannabis, 1973-2004
Suzanne TaylorLucas Richert is George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His many publications include Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture (MIT Press). James H. Mills is Professor of Modern History at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow, University of Strathclyde. His publications include Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928-2008.