VIRTUAL Kremers Seminar — Marijuana Boom: The Rise & Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise
Dr. Lina Britto tells the forgotten story of the first explosion of illicit drugs in the Greater Magdalena region of Colombia.
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Dr. Lina Britto tells the forgotten story of the first explosion of illicit drugs in the Greater Magdalena region of Colombia.
Dr. Chris Duvall traces marijuana’s African past, and argues that better awareness of this history would improve how cannabis is managed nowadays.
Dr. Emily Dufton will discuss the role grassroots activists have played in changing marijuana’s public perception and legal status from the 1960s to today, and what we might expect in the years to come.
Dr. Adam Rathge examines the emergence of legal regulations on the use of cannabis in the United States during the late 19th and early-20th centuries in "Cannabis Cures: Medical Jurisprudence and the Origins of the War on Drugs".
Dr. David Guba charts the rise and fall of cannabis as medicine in France across the 19th century and argues that, with greater engagement with their colonial history, the French might again play a major role in the medical marijuana movement currently unfolding across the globe.
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