On Drugs
By David Lenson
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 1995-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 081662710X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780816627103
Binding: Hardcover
Summary: YOU GOTTA READ IT
Rating: 5
This is simply a spectacular book. No one has written so well about drugs. Lenson is brilliant on the effects of drugs: what it's like to be high on this or that. He's marvelous on the history of the reception of various drugs--how pot came into the US and how its cultural meanings changed over time. He's also astoundingly good at showing what role drugs have played in the cultural imagination of the past twenty years, and how the war against drugs functions as, among other things, a war to regularize, normalize and delimit consciousness. The writing is very clear, but highly
sophisticated, nuanced and often
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