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Can't Find My Way Home : America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 : America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 - Martin Torgoff

Can't Find My Way Home : America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

By: Martin Torgoff

Paperback | 1 May 2005 | Edition Number 1

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This is the story of how America got high, told from a personal point of view by someone who took part in many of the events that he reports in this book. Martin Torgoff has spent ten years interviewing and researching this book, and many of the people with whom he spoke are no longer alive (Ginsberg, Burroughs, Leary, etc). His intention was to write a history that could be the basis of meaningful dialogue about how society should regulate drugs. He doesn't romanticise or demonise drug use, but neither does he accept hopelessly glib slogans such as 'Just say no'. With roughly one-third of the population having used illegal drugs, it is clear that many Americans don't just say no. But discussion of drug policy is confined to a small section at the end of the book. This is a history, told mainly through the words of participants. The book covers the major drugs of the century: heroin, cocaine, marijuana, Ecstasy, and amphetamines. It begins with the jazz musicians of the 1940's, through the Beat Generation of the fifties, the flower-power of the sixties, the wake-up call in the seventies to the designer drugs of the eighties and nineties. Through this history of drugs Martin Torgoff presents a facsinating social history of America over the last sixty years and shows how the use (and misuse) of drugs have shaped a nation.
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"As pleasantly and richly intoxicating as a double hit of Humboldt County, California's finest....Torgoff ranges widely in documenting the profound influence of drugs on postwar America." -- Nick Gillespie, The Washington Post Book World

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Non-FictionHistoryRegional & National HistoryHistory of the AmericasSociety & CultureCultural StudiesPopular CultureSociology & AnthropologyAnthropologySocial & Cultural Anthropology, EthnographySocial Issues & ProcessesSocial Aspects of Illness & Addictions
Social Aspects of Drug & Substance AbuseSocial Services & WelfareCrime & CriminologyDrugs Trade & Drug TraffickingEarliest Times to Present Day20th Century History from 1900 to 2000Post War 20th Century History after 1945Politics & Government

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