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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,[...]