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...The Battle for Prohibition, 1870–1940 The anti-opium movement gained traction in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Religiously motivated reformers joined forces with medical professionals and politicians, all of whom had their own reasons for wanting to restrict narcotics...

... As concern about the negative effects of opium grew, officials and reformers proposed a variety of potential solutions including better control over sales, registration of users, restricting the amounts sold, and prohibition. This chapter explores the ways that anti-opium reformers settled...

... and marred by lethal violence. In response, the revolutionary government deported 131 Catholic priests and nuns from Cuba, and banned religious street processions outright, a prohibition that lasted some forty years. The revolutionary government’s charges that Catholicism was a traitorous “bourgeois religion...

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... After the United States adopted prohibition for its colony the Philippines in 1905, US officials began to promote prohibition internationally. Despite initial skepticism, especially from Britain and France, countries began to embrace aspects of drug prohibition, starting with opium prohibition...

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... of drugs since the first decade of the twentieth century, and it has promoted that approach around the world. Exploring this longer history reveals some of the reasons the War on Drugs has persisted. prohibition narcotics overdose ...

... Marijuana has a somewhat different history of restriction in the United States than do opiates and cocaine. It was prohibited later, at the federal level. There has been more debate about its status, with some advocating decriminalization or legalization, while others found it as dangerous...