Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France
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Abstract
In this valuable book David Guba traces how ideas about cannabis use in Arabic and Muslim history affected, and continue to infect, perceptions about cannabis in France and indeed elsewhere. He argues that key myths, such as the idea that the order of the assassins originated from a cult of hashish-crazed acolytes of the ‘Old Man on the Mountain’ reappeared in various assessments of the value and effect of hashish on the mind of the user. The argument is bookended with discussions of the experiences of France in Egypt during the revolutionary period and in Algeria in the middle of the Nineteenth century. Guba demonstrates in considerable detail how the myth of the assassin and the perception of the Arab and Muslim character as less refined and sophisticated than Europeans, drove a colonial ideology that sought to “civilize” these peoples. The distorted understanding of cannabis was an important aspect of...
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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