Author: David F. Musto
Most Americans would be surprised to learn that large quantities of beer were brought over on the
Mayflower and that the hallowed Puritans were fond of drink. How many today realize that hemp was once one of our most lucrative cash crops-encouraged by President John Adams and promoted by the
Agriculture department? Or that cocaine, opium and heroin had several waves of popularity in this century and the last? Drugs and alcohol have been with us from the start. So have attempts to control or eliminate their use. In the first anthology of its kind, renowned
drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the Unites…
