Paul Gootenberg on the Global History of Drugs
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Drugs in History - A History of Drugs and Its Importance
Sociologist who wrote about marijuana in the 1950s is still working writing at age of 94. He's become a famous sociologist profiled in the New Yorker magazine and living in San Francisco. His thesis was basically a participant ethnography with jazz musicians and their audiences to learn how to use marijuana. The historians have taken a really bought into most of the constructivist ideas which really do go back to Becker, he says.
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