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Native apparently somewhere in central Asia, cannabis is at present one of the most widely disseminated cultivated plants. Cannabis as we know it has developed together with man as a multi-purpose economic plant; and, as a result of selection fo[...]Chapitre
Data, drawn from field work in progress in Colombia, South America, are presented on the cultivation, marketing, and consumption of cannabis. The analysis is an effort to liberate cannabis from the individualistic, idiosyncratic thinking of past[...]Livre
Le cannabis a été utilisé par l'homme depuis la préhistoire autant pour ses vertus médicales et magico-religieuses que pour la confection d'objets obtenus à partir de ses fibres. Aujourd'hui il attire l'attention du monde occidental pour ses pro[...]Chapitre
Cannabis has been grown in Nepal, in both wild and cultivated varieties, for an extremely long time; but its uses, and attitudes toward them, have begun to change in recent years. Traditionally, Hindu yogis (more often than not pilgrims from Ind[...]Chapitre
Professor Michael Beaubrun of the University of the West Indies was the guest speaker at a joint dinner meeting of the Congress sessions on cannabis and on alcohol. The address provides comparative data from the British West Indies and posits so[...]Chapitre
Relatively little is known regarding the drug effects of marihuana in man, vis-à-vis the different methods of preparing the plant material prior to actual use. A search of the scientific literature reveals cryptic references which lead one to be[...]Chapitre
Two ceramic smoking-pipe bowls, excavated in Lalibela Cave, Begemeder Province, Ethiopia, were radiocarbon dated to 1320 + 80 A.D. A modified thin-layer chromatographic technique, applied to the pipe residues, yields positive tests for cannabis-[...]Chapitre
A detailed description is given of the various modes of consumption of cannabis, bhang as a drink and charas for smoking, in Pakistan, a society in which cannabis is socially accepted. The study includes preliminary social and medical investigat[...]Chapitre
The history of cannabis in Canada extends back to the early 17th century, but non-medical use can be conclusively documented only to the 1930s and popular use to the mid-1960s. Cannabis was first legally prohibited in 1923; criminal penalties fo[...]Chapitre
A report on the initial stages of research on chronic cannabis users in Costa Rica. Work on the project began in July, 1973, and is expected to terminate by September, 1975. It will involve in-depth studies of the sociocultural context of cannab[...]Chapitre
Arguments presented by researchers to explain "why" Andean peasants chew coca leaf have traditionally centered around the fact that coca leaf is the source of cocaine alkaloids. Following the presentation of several cocaine-models of coca chewin[...]Chapitre
Cannabis sativa has been used throughout southern and eastern Africa for centuries, yet we know little about its origin, diffusion, and patterns of use. This paper deals with the likely migratory routes and diffusion patterns of cannabis in Afri[...]Chapitre
Despite the growing volume of literature on the subject of hemp, the historical routes of its diffusion remain obscure and there is scant reference to its ubiquitous role in folk ritual, magic and medicine among European peasantry. The term cann[...]Chapitre
Cannabis sativa, or kif, grown in large quantities in the Rif Mountains, is one of the chief cash crops in the area; although illegal, cultivation has flourished as a result of ecological and political factors that delimit the economic potential[...]Chapitre
Cannabis indica, originating in central Asia, was probably introduced into Southeast Asia about the sixteenth century. The vernacular name used throughout Southeast Asia is derived from the Sanskrit ganja. Cultivation of the plant is on a family[...]Chapitre
The article is concerned with the questions of how knowledge about marihuana is used in the formulation of public policy and how public policy affects the behavior of individuals. Elite opinion tends to be sluggish in changing its views in respo[...]Chapitre
Despite the great scholarly attention tobacco has received from a variety of disciplines, no effort has, heretofore, been made to assess its magico-religious significance among South American Indians. The paper examines the prevalence and distri[...]Chapitre
This paper, a summary of a monograph prepared for the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, on the non-Western use of hallucinatory agents, assembles data on a dozen societies of the world where plant hallucinogens have been central t[...]Chapitre
Colombia is a marihuana country. Cannabis is cultivated as a cash crop on a family basis and on plantations in the interior. Production has increased considerably within the past decade and is now an established export industry. Formerly used ma[...]Chapitre
The National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse was established by the Congress of the United States as a part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. From its inception, the Commission was never given legislative[...]Livre
L'œuvre, de Pierre Bourdieu compte parmi les contributions les plus importantes et novatrices de la sociologie contemporaine. Le métier de sociologue, paru d'abord en 1968, témoigne d'un travail d'auto-réflexion sur la pratique sociologique par [...]Chapitre
The paper examines the type and sources of data concerning Cannabis sativa in Brazil, and presents the terminology used in the various regions of Brazil. The types of users of cannabis, methods of use, and a brief examination of the reasons offe[...]Chapitre
Huichol worldview, in many respects, constitutes a cultural inflection of what appears to be a highly regular human production: the mystic vision. Among the Huichols, a worldview is elaborated, based on their use of peyote. Cultural expectations[...]Chapitre
The Island of Réunion, presently a French Department, in the Indian Ocean, has a polyethnic population of diverse origins: the descendants of African slaves and indentured laborers from India (principally from the south); Chinese and Europeans ([...]Chapitre
Cannabis seeds were brought to Brazil by African slaves, mainly from Angola by the first half of the fifteenth century. Cultivation was concentrated in the northeast areas of sugar cane plantations and cannabis was used for curing, religious rit[...]Chapitre
Cannabis in India is used in three forms: ganja, bhang, and charas. Bhang is obtained from the dried leaves of Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica. The oleo-resinous exudate of the plants is called charas and the flowering tops are called ganja. [...]Chapitre
The first section of this paper traces the history of cannabis as it relates to ancient Greece, Byzantium, the Greek-speaking populations under Ottoman domination, and modern Greece. While it is clear that ancient Greeks were aware of the use of[...]Chapitre
During the 1960s, the characteristics of the marihuana-using population in the U.S. changed from a predominantly lower socioeconomic minority group to one of middle to upper-upper status. It is argued that this transition resulted from large num[...]Chapitre
Traditional multipurpose use of ganja, introduced to Jamaica in the mid-nineteenth century by indentured laborers from India, was diffused to the black working class and has become endemic in the past forty to fifty years. Smoking ganja, althoug[...]Chapitre
The Chinese character for hemp, "ma", dates to about 3,000 years ago and was derived from an ideogram depicting the plant's fiber producing character. In early writings separate characters were assigned to male and female hemp plants, its seeds,[...]Chapitre
Members of an Indian tribal group living in small communities, near the Gulf of Mexico, use marihuana, which they call la santa rosa, in their religious ceremonies. La santa rosa is considered a sacred plant, as revealed in a myth of divine orig[...]Chapitre
A comprehensive field study, including videotape coverage and extensive laboratory research, was carried out in a small agricultural community in Jamaica, the West Indies. The research sought to explore whether cannabis altered the user's cognit[...]Chapitre
Data collected in Rwanda in 1959-1960 show cannabis in its social and cultural context. Cannabis use has its place in a socio-cultural system that determines its character and extent and that is in turn affected by the nature of cannabis use. Th[...]Chapitre
The contemporary complex of behavior and values associated with cannabis use among the working-class population of Jamaica is considered as an institution. Preceding the main discussion, brief summaries of the East Indian paternity of the comple[...]Chapitre
The paper examines the factors involved in resistance to hashish use by the traditional Jewish community in Morocco where hashish use was an accepted custom and the factors involved in their selective receptivity to the custom, paradoxically, af[...]Chapitre
On the basis of data derived from a major research project conducted by the National Center for Social and Criminological Research in Cairo on the use of cannabis in Egypt and several minor studies dealing with the same subject, this paper outli[...]