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Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs

Name: Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs
ISBN: 9780197688502

George Fisher

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George Fisher seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and challenges claims that early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. Those moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures, which later influenced Puritan condemnations of drunkenness, and ultimately shaped the early American drug war. Early laws against opium dens, cocaine, and cannabis rarely rose from racial strife, but sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.

Année:

2024

Editeur::

Oxford University Press

Langue:

english

Pages:

505

ISBN 10:

0197688500

ISBN 13:

9780197688502