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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mills, James H. (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Cannabis nation [Texte imprimé] : control and consumption in Britain, 1928-2008 / James H. Mills
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-292 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-282) and index
"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."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Cannabis -- Droit -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Cannabis -- Politique publique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Cannabis -- Consommation -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199283422 (hbk.). - ISBN 0199283427 (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435270136
Notice n° :
FRBNF43527013
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