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What Students Write about Drug History
What is it that interests students about the history of drugs? As it turns out, a wide variety of topics. And not necessarily the ones...
American Drug History, The Box Set
Over at the blog Mexican Opium, Mikelis Beitiks has began to assemble a “Wordtrack” on the history of American drug law–a kind of...
Wachovia’s Drug Habit
The Observer reports on how Wachovia – one of the United State’s largest banks before it was purchased by Wells Fargo in 2008 – laundered...
Disconnect: Moral Liberalization and Mass Incarceration
Note: The following is David Courtwright’s thoughtful response to my earlier post, in which I raised some questions about his recent...
On Moving Beyond “Context”
Perhaps it is because I teach in a medical school, rather than a traditional academic history department, but over the past two years I...
Drug Law Exceptionalism?
One of the rewards of blogging is an instant boost to your awareness of what others are doing with the same sort of forum. Among other...
Doing Drug History from a Drug War Zone
A Student Murdered One hot morning last May, the El Paso Times brought news that many of us had been dreading—a student from the...
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