- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 Drugs 101 -
2 Alcohol -
3 Cocaine -
4 Opium -
5 Cannabis -
6 Tobacco -
7 Crackdown -
8 Amphetamines -
9 Alternative Consciousness -
10 Nixon’s War -
11 Reagan’s War -
12 Supply Side -
13 Kingpin -
14 Plan Colombia -
15 Catastrophic Success -
16 Our Man in Lima -
17 Bolivian Backlash -
18 El Narco Mexicano -
19 Fear and Loathing in Central America -
20 The Global War -
21 The War over the War on Drugs -
22 Law Enforcement and Incarceration -
23 Cannabis Revisited -
24 Big Tobacco -
25 Psychedelics 2.0 -
26 The Most American Drug -
27 Opioid Nation - Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward
- Notes
- Gratitude
- Index
Drugs 101
Drugs 101
- Chapter:
- (p.11) 1 Drugs 101
- Source:
- Drugs and Thugs
- Author(s):
Russell Crandall
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter recounts the history of how humans have used drugs for all kinds of reasons, including achieving alternative states of consciousness. It mentions excavations that have uncovered colored stains on human teeth that date back to sometime between 2400 and 2000 B.C.E., indigenous Peruvians were making pipes for smoking hallucinogenic herbs. It also talks about the Chinese, who were cultivating opium by 700 A.D. and an Abyssinian herder from 900 A.D., who noticed that his animals would become nervous after eating the shiny red fruit of a tree that would one day be called coffee. The chapter refers to scientists that suggested that the desire to alter consciousness is the “fourth drive” in every human mind, making drug use biologically inevitable. It provides enough information to dispel some of the myths about drug use, abuse, addiction, trafficking, and enforcement.
Keywords: hallucinogenic herbs, drugs, opium, fourth drive, drug use, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug trafficking, drug enforcement
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
1 Drugs 101 -
2 Alcohol -
3 Cocaine -
4 Opium -
5 Cannabis -
6 Tobacco -
7 Crackdown -
8 Amphetamines -
9 Alternative Consciousness -
10 Nixon’s War -
11 Reagan’s War -
12 Supply Side -
13 Kingpin -
14 Plan Colombia -
15 Catastrophic Success -
16 Our Man in Lima -
17 Bolivian Backlash -
18 El Narco Mexicano -
19 Fear and Loathing in Central America -
20 The Global War -
21 The War over the War on Drugs -
22 Law Enforcement and Incarceration -
23 Cannabis Revisited -
24 Big Tobacco -
25 Psychedelics 2.0 -
26 The Most American Drug -
27 Opioid Nation - Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward
- Notes
- Gratitude
- Index
