This book by two professors at the University of Virginia School of Law is described on its dust jacket as "the first full-scale history of marihuana use and prohibition in the United States." This may be a bit of publisher's hyperbole, but the authors do present a comprehensive and objec...
StickgoldWrightInstituteInformaworldJournal of Psychoactive DrugsBonnie, R. J., and C. H. Whitebread II. 1974. The Marihuana Conviction: A History of Marihuana Prohibition in the United States. Charlottesville: University of Vir- ginia Press....
Prohibition PartyNational Prohibition Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1892. In the United States an early wave of movements for state and localprohibitionarose from the intensive religious revivalism of the 1820s and ’30s, whichstimulatedmovements toward perfectionism in human beings, including temperance...
Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages with the aim of obtaining partial or total abstinence through legal means. Most countries that have experimented with the ban have soon lifted it, including
1966: The Trial of the San Francisco Nine begins and results in California lifting its abortion prohibition and allowing medical committees to approve abortion requests. In California, nine doctors were sued for performing abortions on women who had been exposed to rubella. As the trial proceeded,...
History of the United States电子版.pdf,History of the United States 1 History of the United States The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, yet its territory was occupied first by the Na
the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. History of the United States History of the United States The largest settlements were by the English on the East Coast, starting in 1607. By the 1770s the Thirteen Colonies contained two and half million people, were prosperous, and had ...
This article reviews the history of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs as well as the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies. Each has its roots in the Yale Laboratory of Applied Physiology and the era shortly after the repeal of National Prohibition in the United States. The journal was...
1920- Prohibition Begins 1920- Participation in League Rejected 1920- Wall Street Bombing 1920- Women's Suffrage 1920- Election of 1920 1921- Immigration Quota 1921- Bureau of Budget 1921- Tulsa Race Riot 1922- Washington Naval Convention 1922- Fordney-McCumber Tariff 1923- Ku Klux Klan Exposed...