For sale, a copy of the revised edition of Marijuana—Deceptive Weed, a period work of anti-marijuana medical and social commentary by a physician and researcher who became one of the more prominent voices in twentieth-century debates regarding cannabis, drug policy, and addiction. Jacket copy: “Professor Nahas has carefully evaluated the scientific data on marihuana and has produced a balanced and objective reply to those who believe that legalization would be a partial solution..."; “Here at last is a scholarly work that goes to the heart of the tangled issues surrounding the drug and its use.”
Publisher: Raven Press, Ltd.
Author: Gabriel G. Nahas, M.D., Ph.D.
Year: 1975
Format: hardcover with dust jacket, blue cloth over boards
ISBN: 9780911216394
Language: English
A few of the 344 pages bear drawings, charts, or maps. Gilt lettering on the spine. The jacket is clean and protected in mylar with paper backing. There is a 3/4" tear-out on the top edge of the back of the jacket, along with some bump-creasing to the corners and ordinary shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked, likely unread. There is an owner stamp on the copyright page.
This item is a revealing artifact of its era, situated at the intersection of medicine, public policy, psychopharmacology, youth culture, moral concern, and the American debate over legalization versus criminalization. A representative passage:
With no sense of purpose and no meaning in their lives, many adolescents wish to escape a harsh world in which they feel alienated and for which they have not been prepared. They turn toward drugs, which give their lives the dimension they cannot find through the free play of the mental faculties with their particular social context.
A sound very good copy of an unusual and historically interesting book on a subject that remains highly current. Suitable for collectors of drug-policy history, 1970s medical and social science literature, cannabis studies, public-health debates, psychopharmacology, addiction literature, and modern American cultural history.
