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Commodifying Cannabis - A Cultural History of a Complex Plant in the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
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Commodifying Cannabis - A Cultural History of a Complex Plant in the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
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Cannabis is a genetically diverse plant that has been commodified
for a variety of different purposes by many cultures throughout
world history. For thousands of years, people have used its fiber,
seed, and flowers to make rope and cloth, rig ships, feed people
and livestock, concoct medicines, and alter states of
consciousness. Until the nineteenth century, though, most Europeans
and Americans were unaware of drug varieties of cannabis. The
British encountered them in India and created western-style
medicines that sold throughout the Atlantic world by the 1840s, but
negative associations with Oriental intoxication and degeneracy
sullied the plant's reputation as a viable commodity. Now, after
decades of transatlantic criminalization policies against cannabis
in the twentieth century, it is making a comeback. In Commodifying
Cannabis, Bradley J. Borougerdi traces the tangled histories of its
use for fiber, medicine, and altered states of consciousness across
the Atlantic world, focusing on the dynamic interplay between these
three different cultural applications to explain why the plant has
transformed so many times throughout history. The historical
journey spans a vast geographical landscape and includes over three
centuries of source material to illuminate the cultural foundations
behind the myriad transformations cannabis has endured as a
commodity in the Atlantic world.
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