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.…mehr
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.
George Fisher is the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he has been teaching evidence, prosecution practice, and criminal legal history since 1995. He began practice as a Massachusetts prosecutor and later taught at Boston College Law School, Harvard Law School, and Yale Law School.
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List of Illustrations and Tables Prologue Introduction: Monogamy's Paradox PART I: MORAL ROOTS Chapter One: Sex, Drunkenness, and the Euphoria Taboo Chapter Two: The Gin Crisis Chapter Three: Prohibition's Rise, Its Fall, and the Reign of Social Drinking Chapter Four: Medical Drug Use Versus Recreational Abuse PART II: RACIAL MYTHS Chapter Five: Race in the Dens and Miscegenation Myths Chapter Six: Crazed Racial Coke Fiends Chapter Seven: Marijuana: Assassin of Youth Chapter Eight: Monogamy's Demise?
List of Illustrations and Tables Prologue Introduction: Monogamy's Paradox PART I: MORAL ROOTS Chapter One: Sex, Drunkenness, and the Euphoria Taboo Chapter Two: The Gin Crisis Chapter Three: Prohibition's Rise, Its Fall, and the Reign of Social Drinking Chapter Four: Medical Drug Use Versus Recreational Abuse PART II: RACIAL MYTHS Chapter Five: Race in the Dens and Miscegenation Myths Chapter Six: Crazed Racial Coke Fiends Chapter Seven: Marijuana: Assassin of Youth Chapter Eight: Monogamy's Demise?
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