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, and how has it come to be what it is today - a vast, chequered 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 provides 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 Courtwright tracks the intersecting paths by which popular drugs entered the stream of global commerce. He shows how the efforts of merchants and colonial planters expanded world supply, drove down prices, and drew millions of less affluent purchasers into the market, effectively democratizing drug consumption. He also shows how Europeans used alcohol as an inducement for native peoples to trade their furs, sell captives into slavery, and negotiate away their lands, and how monarchs taxed drugs to finance their wars and expanding empires. This text explains why such profitable exploitation has increasingly given way, over the last hundred years, to policies of restriction and prohibition - and how economic and cultural considerations have shaped those policies to determine which drugs are readily accessible, which strictly medicinal, and which forbidden altogether.
戴维·考特莱特,北佛罗里达大学历史学教授,著作包括《暴力之地:从边境到内地城市的单身男人与社会失序》、《黑暗乐园:美国鸦片毒瘾的历史》。
这本书从全球近代史的维度很好地说明了一个基本问题,那就是近现代的瘾品泛滥问题,完全是与资本主义全球扩张结合在一起的,凡是不能乘上这股商业大潮的瘾品,无论其历史多么悠久效果多么神奇毒性多么强烈,都绝对无法成为真正世界性的问题,事实上它们将只会是一种地区和部族...
评分如果从故事会的角度来看这本书,你肯定会看到许多关于瘾品的有趣故事。然而,站在投资者的角度来看这本书,也许会是另一个非常好的故事。 瘾有分为物质成瘾及行为成瘾,本书主要是讲述物质成瘾(可卡因、海洛因、吗啡、咖啡因等),而行为成瘾是和物质无关的强迫症,如赌瘾和网...
评分曾经看过一个直角坐标系,横轴是毒性,纵轴是成瘾性,把各式各样的“瘾品”放在其中对比,其中大麻的成瘾性排在很低的地方,甚至低于烟草和酒精。在各个国家里,各类瘾品受管制的程度也是各不相同的。而这本书大约就是从历史、经济角度梳理这方面的沿革。 一开始读的时候,有一...
评分说在前面的话: 这本书读了有整整两周,一直不敢下笔。想来也是有原因的:其一,笔者不属于任何“瘾品”(广义上的上瘾物质,后文会有详解)的服用者;其二,笔者没有史学功底(我专于英语与法学),于此下笔就怕耽误各位。但笔者找到了出口一一破解之:奥运会游泳冠军的教练可...
评分说在前面的话: 这本书读了有整整两周,一直不敢下笔。想来也是有原因的:其一,笔者不属于任何“瘾品”(广义上的上瘾物质,后文会有详解)的服用者;其二,笔者没有史学功底(我专于英语与法学),于此下笔就怕耽误各位。但笔者找到了出口一一破解之:奥运会游泳冠军的教练可...
从资本扩张的角度看各种成瘾物质影响力、法律管理力度等如何形成。详细笔记见Evernote
评分有个review不错,http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200108093450620
评分从烟草在一战后随着退伍士兵和雇佣军风靡整个欧洲,政府屡禁不止最后无奈合法化正规化,到美国/俄国禁酒令的失败···就不难理解为什么大麻会逐渐在西方社会走向合法化···(作者在一开始有提到清朝政府用尖木桩刺进吸烟者的头,显然是西方媒体对远东的蛮夷幻想以讹传讹吧???尖木桩???
评分the key message is powerful. Behind global market and trade, economic forces and additive characteristics of the drugs are so intertwined.
评分从资本扩张的角度看各种成瘾物质影响力、法律管理力度等如何形成。详细笔记见Evernote
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