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Author Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- author.

Title Getting high : marijuana through the ages / John Charles Chasteen.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  362.29 CHA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.29 CHA    DUE 03-30-24
 Southington Library - Adult  362.295 CHA    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.295 C489G    Check Shelf
Description viii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Getting high : Trouble with the police ; Meet the cannabis plant -- American century : The early years ; The Marihuana Tax Act, 1937 ; Rise and fall of the counterculture ; Drug war, culture war ; News flash -- Atlantic world : Hemp and rum, strategic resources ; Mexico, and a mystery ; Colombia and Jamaica ; Brazil and the African connection ; Africa, south of the Congo -- Medieval hashish : Wine versus hashish ; Hashish in Muslim society ; God's unruly friends ; The assassin legend ; Not for everybody -- Asian origins : Historic India ; The prehistoric Eurasian Steppes -- The silk road and beyond ; The earliest horizon -- Epiphanies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 atrracted by its low cost. Marijuana, it seems, is a mind-expanding drug after all, and Chasteen explores its rich heritage with captivating insight. -- Front jacket flap.
Subject Marijuana abuse -- History.
Marijuana -- History.
Marijuana. (OCoLC)fst01009256
Marijuana abuse. (OCoLC)fst01009285
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781442254695 hardcover alkaline paper
1442254696 hardcover alkaline paper
9781442254701 electronic book
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