Demons, Discrimination and Dollars: A Brief History of the Origins of American Drug Policy
By David Bearman.
Description
This monograph is an effort to explain why, as a people, as a government, we in the United States did not follow the road of the Shamans, or for that matter of pre 1875 Americans, or conclude, as Andrew Weil and Norman Taylor have, that altered states are important to mental health. I apologize up front for not having all the anthropological tools necessary for a detailed examination of the topic. This book is a good synopsis and starting point. I leave it to the scholars to flesh out my observations. My ideas come from reading, conversation, experience and rumination. I examine why we have...
ISBN(s)
0965107728, 9780965107723
