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Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural measurements of drug-related action in this showing of marijuana's exceptional background in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an commercial fiber and symbol of Western european empire. But, Campos shows, as it steadily disperse to indigenous pharmacopoeias, then prisons and soldiers' barracks, it had taken on both a Mexican name--marijuana - and identity as a quintessentially "Mexican" drug. A century previously, Mexicans assumed that pot could instantly bring about madness and violence in its users, and the drug was outlawed countrywide in 1920. Home Grown thus traces the deep roots of the antidrug ideology and prohibitionist policies that anchor the drug-war violence that engulfs Mexico today. Campos also counters the typical narrative of modern drug wars, which casts global drug prohibition as a sort of informal American cultural colonization. Instead, he argues, Mexican ideas were the building blocks for notions of "reefer madness" in the United States. This book can be an indispensible guide for anyone who hopes to understand the deep and complex origins of marijuana's questionable place in North American history.
