Cannabis nation : control and consumption in Britain, 1928-2008 / James H. Mills.
| Author/creator |
Mills, James H., 1970- |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | ix, 292 p. : 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-282) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012537170 |
| ISBN | 9780199283422 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0199283427 (hbk.) |
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