FLOWERS FROM THE DEVIL: AN AMERICAN OPIATE CRISIS, THE CRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA, AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE PROHIBITION STATE, 1840-1940

This dissertation focuses on historic changes in public perception of narcotic use and abuse from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. From the 1840s to the outbreak of Civil War, politicians, physicians, the general public, and state and federal government remained largely ambivalent on...

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Main Author: Lawson, Clinton David (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2020
In:Year: 2020
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