Legislation prohibiting synthetic cannabinoids
As compounds containing synthetic cannabinoids (“Spice,” “K2″, “herbal incense”) proliferate, so are attempts to legally prohibit them. For example: “New Law – Possession of Synthetic Marijuana.”...
View ArticleSeagram’s Advertising and the Meanings of Moderation After Repeal
Lisa Jacobson, “Navigating the Boundaries of Respectability and Desire: Seagram’s Advertising and the Meanings of Moderation After Repeal,” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 26, no. 2 (Summer...
View ArticleRehabilitation and Narcotics Addiction Policy in New York City, 1951-62
Samuel Roberts, “‘Rehabilitation’ as Boundary Object: Medicalization, Local Activism, and Narcotics Addiction Policy in New York City, 1951-62,” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 26, no. 2...
View ArticleThe Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Widening Embrace of Punitive Politics
Jessica Neptune, “Harshest in the Nation: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Widening Embrace of Punitive Politics,” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 26, no. 2 (Summer 2012). Analyzes “local...
View ArticleTherapeutic Communities and Methadone Maintenance, 1965-1971
Claire Clark, “‘Chemistry Is the New Hope’: Therapeutic Communities and Methadone Maintenance, 1965-1971,” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 26, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 192–216. Describes the...
View ArticleNarcopolitics in Rural America (review)
Miriam Kingsberg, Review of William Garriott, Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America (2011), The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 26, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 222–224. Filed under:...
View ArticleDecline of alcohol prohibition in USA (article)
John Frendreis and Raymond Tatalovich, “Secularization, Modernization, or Population Change: Explaining the Decline of Prohibition in the United States,” Social Science Quarterly 94/2 (June 2013):...
View ArticleWines of eastern North America (book)
Hudson Cattell, Wine of Eastern North America: from Prohibition to the Present (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2014). Filed under: Books, Canada, United States, Wine
View ArticleAlcoholic insanity in the early American republic (book)
Matthew Warner Osborn, Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2014). Filed under: Alcoholism, Books, United States
View ArticleThe Allies’ Use of Amphetamine During World War II
Nicolas Rasmussen, “Medical Science and the Military: The Allies’ Use of Amphetamine During World War II,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42, no. 2 (2011): 205–233. Concludes that the “grounds on...
View ArticleHomelessness and Injection Drug Use in Baltimore, MD, 2005-2009
S. L. Linton et al., “The Longitudinal Association Between Homelessness, Injection Drug Use, and Injection-related Risk Behavior Among Persons with a History of Injection Drug Use in Baltimore, MD,”...
View ArticleComorbid Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorders Among High-Risk Youth at Boys Town
W. Alex Mason et al., “Comorbid Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorders Among High-Risk Youth at Intake Into Residential Care,” Journal of Adolescent Health 53, no. 3 (2013): 350–355. From the National...
View ArticleMarijuana Withdrawal and Aggression Among a Representative Sample of U.S....
P. H. Smith et al., “Marijuana Withdrawal and Aggression Among a Representative Sample of U.S. Marijuana Users,” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 132, no. 1–2 (2013): 63–68. Studies data from 2001-2005 from...
View ArticleMinimum Legal Drinking Age Laws and Drinking Patterns Later in Life
Andrew D. Plunk et al., “The Persistent Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Drinking Patterns Later in Life,” Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 37, no. 3 (2013): 463–469....
View ArticleCannabis prohibition (dissertation in progress)
Adam R. Rathge, “‘Or Any Other Hypnotic Drug’: A History of Cannabis Prohibition in the United States, 1840-1940″ (Ph.D. dissertation in progress, Boston College). Filed under: Cannabis, Licensing and...
View ArticleCannabis Legalization and Public Health: Legal Niceties, Commercialization...
Robin Room, “Cannabis Legalization and Public Health: Legal Niceties, Commercialization and Countercultures,” Addiction 109, no. 3 (2014): 358–359.Filed under: Cannabis, Licensing and Legislation,...
View ArticleSynthetic amphetamine
Henry K. Lee reports today for SFGate on a death possibly caused by an overdose on a synthetic aphetamine, “DOC,” in California. 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-chloroamphetamine is “a psychedelic drug similar to LSD...
View ArticleCannabis Use Disorders Are Comparatively Prevalent among Nonwhite...
Li-Tzy Wu et al., “Cannabis Use Disorders Are Comparatively Prevalent among Nonwhite Racial/ethnic Groups and Adolescents: A National Study,” Journal of Psychiatric Research 50 (2014): 26–35. Concludes...
View ArticleExhibit of “Dry Spell: The Prohibition Experience in Milton”
The Milton Historical Society of Delaware opened this new exhibit last weekend. This Friday, March 28, 2014, 7pm, at the Lydia Black Cannon Museum, there will be a presentation by Michael Dixon,...
View ArticleKola Nut Extract as a Food Ingredient (article)
George A. Burdock, Ioana G. Carabin, and Christine M. Crincoli, “Safety Assessment of Kola Nut Extract as a Food Ingredient,” Food and Chemical Toxicology 47, no. 8 (2009): 1725–1732. Notes that...
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