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Following on the heels of April’s event, the Wellcome Trust recently awarded Dr Lucas Richert and Prof Jim Mills £38,700 to carry on and expand upon the work of the Cannabis: Global Histories project. The money will be used to further develop the network and help produce useful knowledge.
The Cannabis: Global Histories web series proved very popular and, of course, there will be more materials in the future. https://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/points-library/cannabis-global-histories/ Think about submitting a post or video to Emily Dufton, one of the network’s participants, and also the new Managing Editor of Points.
As for publishing, the MIT Press contracted an edited collection of papers from the first conference in April, 2018. This is a great first step getting the research of the network into wider hands.
In Spring 2019, three Cannabis: Global Histories network participants published their cannabis research in:
- A special section of Pharmacy in History, the journal of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
- Human Rights Legislation and the Medicalization of Cannabis in Canada, ca. 2000–Present, by Matthew DeCloedt
- Medical Cannabis in Argentina, by Lucía Romer
- Medicine, Moral Panic, and the International Context of Canadian Cannabis Prohibition, by Michael Couchman
Other network participants and Strathclyde researchers also contributed to the issue. These include: Ved Baruah, Peder Clark, Rachel Meach and Jim Mills.
Watch out for other news about publishing!
Following on from the Glasgow conference, other networking events took place in Shanghai, Washington D.C., as well as Johannesburg.
Plans are in the works to hold panels at future conferences as well as hold follow-up events. Be sure to stay tuned for an announcement about the next Cannabis: Global Histories event, which will be available @drughistory and @StrathCannabis.
For more information, please contact:
Caroline Marley cshhh-admin@strath.ac.uk or Lucas Richert:lrichert@wisc.edu
Useful Resources
- When Good Drugs Go Bad
- Try to Control Yourself
- When legalizing pot, less is more
- Why should liquor control boards manage weed sales? They already know how.
- How to legalize pot? We figured this one out a century ago.
- The Fifth Freedom: The Politics of Psychedelic Patriotism
- From Acid Revolution to Entheogenic Evolution: Psychedelic Philosophy in the Sixties and Beyond
- Grass Roots. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
- Rationale for cannabis-based interventions in the opioid overdose crisis
- Medical cannabis access, use, and substitution for prescription opioids and other substances: A survey of authorized medical cannabis patients
- Home Grown. Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
- Medical Research in Argentina: The Lanari tradition
- Poppies and Gold: Opium and Law-Making on the Witwatersrand, 1904-1910
- The Rise and Fall of the Opium Trade in the Transvaal
- Illicit livelihoods: drug crops and development in Africa
- Quasilegality: khat, cannabis and Africa's drug laws
- Cannabis Nation: Control and consumption in Britain, c. 1928-2008
Abstracts (pdf's)
- James Bradford
- Isaac Campos
- Neil Carrier
- Michael Couchman
- Júlio Delmanto
- Matthew DeCloedt
- Emily Dufton
- Chris Elcock
- David Alan Guba Jr
- Peter Hynd
- Gernot Klantschnig
- Dan Malleck
- Arjan Nuijten
- Ivana Obradovich
- Carlos Pérez Ricart
- Haggai Ram
- Ned Richardson-Little
- Lucia Romero
- Jose Domingo Schievenini
- Sarah Brady Siff
- Stephen Snelders
- Sue Taylor
- Nayeli Urquiza Haas
- Thembisa Waetjen
