Author: Ireland [Ireland -1922]
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Xavier Rynne
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1966]
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Category : Vatican Council
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: James H. Mills
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191632104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Cannabis has never been a more controversial substance in Britain. Over the last decade it has been reclassified twice, has been the subject of a range of official investigations and scientific studies, and has provoked media campaigns and all manner of political gesturing. Cannabis Nation seeks to understand this period by placing it back into the historical context of the long-term story of cannabis and the British. It takes up where its predecessor, Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800-1928 (2003) left off. James Mills traces the story back into the last days of the Empire, when Britain controlled cannabis-consuming societies in Asia and Africa even while there was little taste for the drug back home. He shows that cannabis was caught up in control regimes established to deal with opium and cocaine consumption, while it fell out of favour as a medicine. As such, when migration after the Second World War brought the Empire's cannabis-consumers to the UK, they faced hostile attitudes towards their favourite intoxicant. From that time on a growing number of groups and agencies took an interest in cannabis. Ambitious bureaucrats in the Home Office saw in it an opportunity to draw resources in to the Drugs Branch, while the police began to use laws related to it for a number of other purposes. Experts ranging from pharmacologists to sociologists formed committees on the subject, and its association with colonial migrants lent it an exotic aura to the politically-minded of the 1960s counter-culture and the working-class youth of Britain's inner cities. Since the 1970s governments were content to devolve responsibility to the police for working out the best legal approach to the substance, and efforts to wrestle this back from them proved difficult a decade ago. Cannabis Nation considers all of these trends, details the often eccentric characters that have shaped them, and concludes that current positions and arguments on cannabis can only be properly assessed if their historical origins are clearly understood.

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Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Tash Smith
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816530882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"Exploring larger issues associated with western expansion, this book details the history of the Southern Methodist Church in Indian Territory/Oklahoma and the complex relationship between its white and Indian membership"--Provided by publisher"--

Author:
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Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 1826

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: American Medical Association
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Category : American Medical Association
Languages : en
Pages : 1806

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Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.

Author: Elias Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1652

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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