Cannabis nation control and consumption in Britain, 1928 - 2008

1. Introduction2. "Frost is the only thing which kills it": Lascars, the drugs branch, and doctors, c. 1928-c. 1945 -- 3. "Egypt was taking strong action against the traffic in hashish": "loco-weed", the League of Nations, and the British Empire, c. 1928-c. 1945 -- 4. &...

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1. Verfasser: Mills, James H. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung:1. Introduction2. "Frost is the only thing which kills it": Lascars, the drugs branch, and doctors, c. 1928-c. 1945 -- 3. "Egypt was taking strong action against the traffic in hashish": "loco-weed", the League of Nations, and the British Empire, c. 1928-c. 1945 -- 4. "The prevalence of hashish smoking among the coloured men": migration, communism, and crime, 1945-1962 -- 5. "Considered to be without medical justification": science, medicine, and committees, 1945-1961 -- 6. "Cannabis was spreading to white people": new consumers, new controls, 1962-1971 -- 7. "The British compromise": devolved power and the domestic consumer, 1971-1997 -- 8. "I have decided to reclassify cannabis, subject to parliamentary approval": legislators, law-enforcers, campaigns, and classification, 1997-2008 -- 9. Conclusion.
1. Introduction -- 2. "Frost is the only thing which kills it": Lascars, the drugs branch, and doctors, c. 1928-c. 1945 -- 3. "Egypt was taking strong action against the traffic in hashish": "loco-weed", the League of Nations, and the British Empire, c. 1928-c. 1945 -- 4. "The prevalence of hashish smoking among the coloured men": migration, communism, and crime, 1945-1962 -- 5. "Considered to be without medical justification": science, medicine, and committees, 1945-1961 -- 6. "Cannabis was spreading to white people": new consumers, new controls, 1962-1971 -- 7. "The British compromise": devolved power and the domestic consumer, 1971-1997 -- 8. "I have decided to reclassify cannabis, subject to parliamentary approval": legislators, law-enforcers, campaigns, and classification, 1997-2008 -- 9. Conclusion.
Beschreibung:Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:IX, 292 S.
24 cm
ISBN:0199283427
0-19-928342-7
9780199283422
978-0-19-928342-2