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New PDF release: Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic

By Lisa Gezon

ISBN-10: 1598744909

ISBN-13: 9781598744903

ISBN-10: 1598744917

ISBN-13: 9781598744910

Khat, marijuana, peyote—are those risky medicines or vilified crops with wealthy cultural and scientific values? during this booklet, Lisa Gezon brings the drug debate into the twenty first century, providing standards for comparing psychotropic ingredients. targeting khat, whose hairy leaves are an more and more well known stimulant and the objective of vehement anti-drug campaigns, she explores biocultural and socioeconomic contexts on neighborhood, nationwide, and worldwide degrees. Gezon presents a multidisciplinary exam of the plant’s direct actual and mental results, in addition to oblique social and structural results on source of revenue and hard work productiveness, id, gendered relationships, worldwide drug discourses, and foodstuff safety. This subtle, multi-leveled research cuts during the conventional conflict traces of the drug debate and is a version for figuring out and comparing psychotropic ingredients round the world.

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