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Bradley J. Borougerdi, "Cannabis: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)

12/4/2025 • 50 min

Bradley Borougerdi joins Jana Byars to talk about Cannabis: A Global History (Reaktion, 2025). An international cultural history of the multifunctional plant. Cannabis explores the historical, pharmacological, and cultural significance of the controversial plant. Beginning with cannabis's origins as a food source in Southeast Asia, Borougerdi describes the globa… Play episode

Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First …
Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Orig…
Katie Herzog, "Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Fre…
Susan D. Stewart. "On the Rocks: Straight Talk about Women and Drinking" (…
Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History,…
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction…
Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial …
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics,…
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadlie…
Owen Flanagan, "What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance …
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Add…
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" …
Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border …
Alcohol
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identi…
Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Patricia A. Roos, "Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Add…
Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career B…
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in Briti…
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" …
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Be…
Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarcera…
Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the…
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a G…
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color o…
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Ma…
Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Med…
Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pha…
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeto…
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, "Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy…
Henry H. Work, "Wood, Whiskey and Wine: A History of Barrels"(Reaktion Boo…
Christine Folch, "The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History" (Princeto…
Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (…
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, "Movies Under the Influence" (U Minnesota Pre…
On Alcohol, Islam, and the Ontic
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
James Mallery, "City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History…
Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope i…
John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, …
Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Br…
Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the …
Adam Zientek, "A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldi…
Ryan Reft, "Heroin and Chocolate City: Black Community Responses to Drug A…
Marina Welker, "Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove …
John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisatio…
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

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