Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World by David T. Courtwright, David T Courtwright

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World


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Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World David T. Courtwright, David T Courtwright
Publisher: Harvard University Press


"Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available the world over, but not peyote or qat? Why are alcohol and tobacco legal, but not heroin or cocaine? What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, checkered pattern of use and abuse, medicine and recreation, commerce and interdiction? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines." "Offering a social and biological account of why psychoactive goods proved so seductive, David

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