Paul Gootenberg on the Global History of Drugs
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Drugs and the Global Prohibition Regime
Some global prohibition regimes result in basically almost abolishing or getting eliminated the activity at which they were targeted whereas others utterly fail. One of my main arguments there was that moral factors it's not just all about economics and security and politics that there was actually a transnational moral dimension to what happened around the world. The emergence of steamboats makes piracy much less viable on you know other factors with slavery won't go into but that with drugs you know these things were so easily trafficked and so easily in such small amounts that it was no way to essentially suppress them.
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