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Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France Volume 1

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Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize cannabis, specifically hashish, in the treatment of disease. In Taming Cannabis David Guba examines how nineteenth-century French authorities routinely blamed hashish consumption, especially among Muslim North Africans, for behaviour deemed violent and threatening to the social order.

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Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France Volume 1 2020, McGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-13: 9780228001201

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Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France Volume 1 2020, McGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-13: 9780228001195

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