Brief descriptions of earlier drug epidemics in America: 1885-1910, opium and cocaine use; 1910-1920, legislation to prevent drug use; 1920-1933, age of prohibition (liquor banned); 1933-1945, marijuana arrives; 1945-...
Book Review: Laycock, Joseph “The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America by Robert Love” Nova Religios: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol 15, No 3 (February 2012) pp 122-123 Laycock, Joseph “Yogo for the New Woman and the New Man: The Role of Pi...
As Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote in 1882, “A man who must separate himself from his neighbors’ habits in order to be happy is in much the same case with one who requires to take opium for the same purpose.” Or as Kathryn Shulz put it much more recently, Walden is little more than ...
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The Harrison Act of 1914 outlawed the use of opium andcocainefor non-medical purposes, but the illicit drugs continued to circulate. In 1925, a black market for opium opened up in New York’sChinatown. At this time, there were about 200,000 heroin addicts in the United States. ...
Three other popular drugs in this era were opium, cocaine, and marijuana. Use of these drugs was so common that nineteenth-century America has been called a “dope fiend’s paradise” (Brecher, 1973). A brief discussion of these drugs’ histories will underscore the widespread use of drugs...
The Smoking Opium Exclusion Act in 1909 banned the possession, importation and use of opium for smoking. However, opium could still be used as a medication. This was the first federal law to ban the non-medical use of a substance, although many states and counties had banned alcohol sales ...
Web of Science ®Google Scholar Armstrong, K. A. 2017.Brexit Time; Leaving the EU-Why, How and When?Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar Art Newspaper. 2023. “Show Draws Links Between China’s Opium Wars and today’s Opioid Crisis.”https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023...
Opium Dens Thousands of Chinese came to America to work on railroads and in theCaliforniagold fields during the 1849Gold Rush. They brought with them the habit of opium smoking. Chinese immigrants soon established opium dens—places to buy, sell and smoke opium—in so-calledChinatownsthroughout...
Rather disingenuously, the Queensland legislation of 1897 was called the Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, even though only 6 of its 33 clauses related to opium, the remaining all directed towards control of Indigenous people. So how did one get exempted? When ...