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At present India is a leading producer, distributer, and consumer of generic medicines. Tracing this development, Disparate Remedies explores the integrated histories of the medical market and industrially manufactured medicines in colonial and postcolonial India, engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production.

A hub for the production, distribution, investigation, and consumption of psychedelics, New York City gave birth to a drug culture that was a fitting reflection of the global metropolis. Psychedelic New York sheds light on decades of psychedelic science, the inception of psychedelic art, drug-infused spirituality, and competing drug subcultures.

Remedicalizing Cannabis discovers the historical ins and outs of cannabis as a botanical product with medical applications. Addressing questions about patient access, the effectiveness of international drug control systems, and the role of expert advice, it reveals how we have arrived at the current classification of cannabis as a medical product.

Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Cigarette Nation explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canadian smokers as they responded to mounting evidence that cigarette use was harmful.

An exploration of the history of cannabis use and prohibition in the French imperial nation-state.