Hemp: American history revisited : the plant with a divided history
A look at major events in U.S. and world history as they influenced, and as they may have been influenced by, the cultivation and use of hemp
History
viii, 232 pages ; 23 cm
9780875862064, 9780875862057, 9780875862262, 0875862063, 0875862055, 0875862268
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Hemp's importance to mankind's early development
Men's early knowledge of cannabis as medicine
Success breeds imitations
The British contribution
The age of British colonization
The growth of infant America
Hemp in the colonies
Religion in colonial America
The use of cannabis, other than as hemp
The split in British American relations
The war for independence begins
Why hemp was not a major revolutionary issue
The war ends and hemp use declines
Reorganization under the constitution
Johnny Appleseed
The crusade against marijuana
The old man of the mountain
Religion & alcohol: the beginnings of alcohol prohibition
Andrew Jackson v. John Quincy Adams
Hemp and presidential politics
Building the railroad
King cotton
The British outlaw slavery
The 1860 election: a foregone conclusion
The ironclads
The Chinese opium wars
Prejudice rears its ugly head
The economic depression of the 1890s
The re-emergence of the prohibitionist movement
The Teddy Roosevelt presidency
Passage of the Harrison anti-narcotics act
Teddy's final shot at corporate domination
The Ludlow massacre
The 1912 election: a turning point in American history
Republican party advocates alcohol prohibition
Wilson's comeback
The roaring 20s
America emerges from WWI as an economic powerhouse
The rejuvenated republican party
The scandalous Harding administration
New York repeals enforcement of prohibition
The Coolidge administration
America's most prosperous decade
Looking bad in the eyes of the world
The folly of prohibition
The need to outlaw marijuana
The 1928 election
The stock market crash
Proof of prohibition's destructive nature
The "experts" explain the Great Depression
The bonus army
The 1932 presidential election
The great social experiment ends in failure
Going off the gold standard
On the brink of annihilation
Passage of the marijuana tax act
The effects of outlawing the use of hemp
New billion dollar crop
Race relations in America
"The mezz"
The Laguardia committee report
The beatnik generation
The Eisenhower
Kennedy era
An overview of Anslinger's bureaucratic career
Vanguard of social change
Riot at Chicago's 1968 democrat convention
The catastrophic Nixon years
Marijuana tax act ruled unconstitutional
Woodstock and operation intercept
War is hell and people die
The law prevents knowledgeable use
The 1972 presidential commission on marijuana
Legalization vs decriminalization
The president's commission on marijuana report
Nixon officially declares government's "war on drugs"
1972 presidential election
New York takes a step backwards
States begin adopting decriminalization
Alaska upholds personal rights
The 1976 presidential election
New Mexico's medical marijuana trial
The Mexican drug war
The terrible 1980s
Rejuvenation of America's drug war (1980's)
The Columbia tragedy
The first George Bush presidency
The medicinal marijuana issue
Opiates, the most effective pain killer
Cocaine: a reliable local anesthetic
Cops and robbers: Hollywood's influence
Today's realities are different than 1937
We're wasting our natural resources
The benefits of using hemp today
Anything oil can do, hemp can do better
Politics as usual?: a condemnation of political realities
Economics: hardly an exact science
Forced morality: attempting to change human nature