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Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing
substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure
and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption
have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and social,
political, and economic disparities. Contributors to this
collection explore how drugs and alcohol intersect with diverse
histories, including gender, medicine, popular culture, and
business. Pleasure and Panic brings a dispassionate voice to
current debates about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws and
challenges existing ideas about how to deal with the so-called
problems of drug and alcohol use.
Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the
nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and
federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal
State traces the Ontario provincial government's takeover of liquor
regulation by in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and
property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response
to an active prohibitionist movement and equally active liquor
industry. The drink question became as political as it was moral -
a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of
provincial and federal rights and, ultimately, in the crafting of
the modern state.
In the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a
range of ailments. Drug dependency, when it occurred, was
considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century,
attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. Dan
Malleck reveals how different forces converged in the early 1900s
to influence lawmakers and set the course for the drug laws that
exist today. As this book shows, social concerns about drug
addiction had less to do with the long pipe and shadowy den than
with lobbying by medical professionals, concern about the morality
and future of the nation, and a burgeoning pharmaceutical industry.
Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing
substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure
and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption
have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and social,
political, and economic disparities. Contributors to this
collection explore how drugs and alcohol intersect with diverse
histories, including gender, medicine, popular culture, and
business. Pleasure and Panic brings a dispassionate voice to
current debates about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws and
challenges existing ideas about how to deal with the so-called
problems of drug and alcohol use.
In the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a
range of ailments. Drug dependency, when it occurred, was
considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century,
attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. Dan
Malleck reveals how different forces converged in the early 1900s
to influence lawmakers and set the course for the drug laws that
exist today. As this book shows, social concerns about drug
addiction had less to do with the long pipe and shadowy den than
with lobbying by medical professionals, concern about the morality
and future of the nation, and a burgeoning pharmaceutical industry.
Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the
nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and
federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal
State traces the Ontario provincial government's takeover of liquor
regulation by in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and
property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response
to an active prohibitionist movement and equally active liquor
industry. The drink question became as political as it was moral -
a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of
provincial and federal rights and, ultimately, in the crafting of
the modern state.
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