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Cannabis (Hardcover)
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Cannabis (Hardcover)
Series: Botanical
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List price R580
Loot Price R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
You Save R102 (18%)
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Cannabis, one of humanity's first domesticated plants, has been
utilized for spiritual, therapeutic, recreational and even punitive
reasons for thousands of years. Humans have excellent practical
knowledge of the uses of cannabis, yet limited understanding of its
sociocultural consequences, past or present, due to its widespread
prohibition. In Cannabis Chris Duvall explores the cultural history
and geography of humanity's most widely distributed crop, which
supplies both hemp and marijuana. This book focuses on the plant's
currently most valuable product, the psychoactive drug marijuana,
and at the same time provides a global view of the plant, with
coverage of little-studied regions including Africa and Australia.
Cannabis also covers the history of hemp and its use as a fibre
source for ropes and textiles, as a source of edible hempseeds and
as a source of industrial oil for paints and fuel. This book does
not advocate either the prohibition or legalization of the drug but
challenges received wisdom on both sides of the debate.Cannabis
explores and analyses a wide range of sources to provide a better
understanding of its current prohibition, as well as of the
diversity of human-cannabis relationships across the globe. This,
the author argues, is necessary to redress the oversimplistic
portrayals of marijuana and hemp that have dominated discourse on
the subject, and ultimately to improve how the crop is managed
worldwide. This highly accessible, richly illustrated volume is an
essential read given rapidly evolving debates about legality and in
light of changes in the criminalization of marijuana in Uruguay,
some U.S. states and other jurisdictions worldwide.
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