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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I - THE CONFLUENCE OF PSYCHOACTIVE RESOURCES
Chapter 1 - THE BIG THREE: ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND CAFFEINE
Wine
Spirits
Tobacco
Caffeinated Beverages and Foods
Sugar in the Psychoactive Revolution
Chapter 2 - THE LITTLE THREE: OPIUM, CANNABIS, AND COCA
Opium
Saint Morphine
The Ganja Complex
The Marijuana Complex
Coca and Cocaine
Chapter 3 - THE PUZZLE OF DISTRIBUTION
The European Distribution Engine
New World Hallucinogens—and Old
The Future of Regional Plant Drugs
Environmental Consequences
The Geographic Continuum of Drug Use
PART II - DRUGS AND COMMERCE
Chapter 4 - THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICES
An Hearbe of Great Estimation
A Most Excellent Thing
Amphetamine Democracies
The Medical Dilemma
Chapter 5 - A TRAP BAITED WITH PLEASURE
The Evolutionary Paradox
Why Exposure Matters
Addiction, Tolerance, and Demand
Intercourse and Enterprise
Problem Profits
Chapter 6 - ESCAPE FROM COMMODITY HELL
Making People Disappear
The Mustard Seed
A Stroll Down Madison Avenue
Carry on Smoking
McWorld
PART III - DRUGS AND POWER
Chapter 7 - OPIATES OF THE PEOPLE
The Labor Treadmill
Animals and Armies
Drugs and Prostitution
Barter and Slaves
Chapter 8 - TAXES AND SMUGGLING
The Varieties of Taxation
Tax Addiction
The High-Low Problem
How High Is Too High?
Chapter 9 - ABOUT-FACE: RESTRICTION AND PROHIBITION
Objections to Nonmedical Drug Use
Drugs in an Industrial World
The Medical Indictment
China: Nationalists and Internationalists
Chapter 10 - LICIT AND ILLICIT DRUGS
The Harmfulness of Licit Drugs
Drug Realpolitik
Follow the Leaders
Popular Resistance: The Case of the Soviet Union
Illicit Drugs: The Politics of De-escalation
Licit Drugs: The Politics of Escalation
Bibliographic Note
Abbreviations
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
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