Beware Euphoria : The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs. [elektronicky zdroj]
Autor: | Fisher, George |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Informace o vydání: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024. |
Předmět: |
Drugs of abuse-Law and legislation-United States-History
Narcotic laws-United States-History Drugs of abuse-Law and legislation-United States-Criminal provisions Drugs-Moral and ethical aspects-United States Drug control-United States Drug legalization-United States Marijuana-Therapeutic use-United States Electronic books |
Vydání: | 1st ed. |
Druh dokumentu: | Online; Non-fiction; Electronic document |
Abstrakt: | Summary: George Fisher seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and challenges claims that early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. Those moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures, which later influenced Puritan condemnations of drunkenness, and ultimately shaped the early American drug war. Early laws against opium dens, cocaine, and cannabis rarely rose from racial strife, but sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice. |
Databáze: | Vybrané kolekce e-knih |
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