...Nick Johnson Abstract During the first half of the twentieth century in the American West, Mexican and Mexican American farm workers grew and used Cannabis , the marijuana plant, to help navigate the physical, mental, and economic struggles they faced as exploited itinerant laborers. Their stories...

... that the roots of America s drug war stretch back to a marijuana folklore that first developed in Mexico. Cannabis had arrived in the New World in the early sixteenth century as a crop coveted for its fiber. By the late nineteenth century, Campos argues that the plant s use as a drug had become widespread among...

.... Campos is also hesitant to acknowledge that in many of these cases, violence is more likely attributed to overindulgence in alcohol, a much stronger drug. These are not the only misleading claims in the book; Campos also incorrectly identifies the marijuana-yielding Cannabis species as Cannabis sativa...

... sources, Campos argues that the roots of America s drug war stretch back to a marijuana folklore that first developed in Mexico. Cannabis had arrived in the New World in the early sixteenth century as a crop coveted for its fiber. By the late nineteenth century, Campos argues that the plant s use...

... into globalized agriculture. In the Philippines, growers produced an even better quality of fiber for binder twine, albeit more expensive to import due to distance: abaca. Also called manila hemp, although in no way related to industrial or recreational cannabis, abaca comes from the rasped fiber from the stems...

... Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana (Van Nuys, Calif.: HEMP Publishing, 1985 ) Iván Bósca and Michael Krus, The Cultivation of Hemp (Sebastopol, Calif.: Hemptech, 1998 ) Michael Pollan , Botany of Desire.A...

... that it was his turn to guard the cattle that night.36 The workload per person often depended on the number of Khoikhoi ser? vants or slaves employed. As a result, work dominated the lives of labor? ers. To cope with the monotony of manual labor, many servants resorted to drinking liquor and smoking cannabis...