People and Things
Historical Eras
Causes
Trouble
Theories
100
Discovered cannabis use among Indians in Mexico in the 1770s
Who is Jose Alzate?
100
Characterized by weak states, agrarian empires, and peasant lifestyles.
What is the Early Modern Era (c. 1492-1800)?
100
Bourbon Reforms. Enlightenment ideas. International Affairs.
What are the various causes of the independence wars in Latin America?
100
1846-48.
What is the U.S.-Mexico War?
100
Ideas about marijuana caused by prejudice against immigrants.
What is the Mexican Hypothesis?
200
Peyote, ololiuhqui, psilocybin mushrooms, toloache, cannabis.
What are psychotomimetic drugs?
200
Period dominated by civil war, instability, and fighting among warlords
What is the "Era of Caudillos" (c. 1821-c. 1876)?
200
Age of Exploration.
What is a quicker route to Asia? or What is the desire for spices and other luxury goods?
200
1862-67.
What is the French Intervention?
200
Prejudice against marijuana caused by the nefarious activities of one key bureaucrat.
What is the Anslinger Hypothesis?
300
Mexican dictator(1876-1911)
Who was Porfirio Diaz?
300
1810-1821.
What is Mexico's Independence War?
300
Publication responsible for spread of Mexican marijuana ideas to the U.S.
What is the Mexican Herald?
300
Decade when cannabis first reported to cause problems in Mexico.
What is the 1770s?
300
Marijuana. Marijuana smoker. Smoking environment.
What is "drug, set, and, setting"?
400
Father of Mexican independence. "Death to Spaniards. Death to bad government. Long live our Lady of Guadalupe."
Who was Miguel Hidalgo.
400
Dominance of strong states. Dominance of professionals. Dominance of Science. Dominance of national identification. A deep inter-connectedness.
What is the Modern Era?
400
Efforts to make residents of Mexico feel like "Mexicans."
What is nation building?
400
Revered for their knowledge, but feared for what they might do with it.
Who were herbolarias?
400
Lamarckian acquired characteristics and atavisms.
What is degeneration theory?
500
Graphic artist. King of the penny press.
Who was Jose Guadalupe Posada?
500
1770s-1820s.
What is the Age of Revolutions?
500
Leads to the emergence of atavisms in modern people.
What is degeneration?
500
Results in death of perhaps 90% of Mexico's inhabitants.
What is the Conquest?
500
"..any unwritten cultural script that, like a religious text, informs a group's beliefs and, expectations about a given drug, animating the 'drug effects' once the substance is taken."
What is a "placebo text"?