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What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet’s psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

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    Publisher: Harvard University Press
    Publication Date: 01/10/2002
    ISBN13: 9780674010031, 978-0674010031
    ISBN10: 0674010035

    Number of Pages: 288

    Non Fiction , History

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    What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet’s psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.

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