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Home grown : marijuana and the origins of Mexico's war on drugs / Isaac Campos.

Author/creator Campos, Isaac
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Descriptionx, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011041766
ISBN9780807835388 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807835382 (cloth : alk. paper)

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