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Noted Historian: Cultural Trance Behind Our Drug Paranoia

In her popular 2007 book, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Wrong, historian Jennifer Michael Hecht calls our current demonization of drugs a “cultural trance.” (p. 71) Just like past irrational attitudes the modern view of drugs may eventually reveal itself as, “bossy, shaming, controlling nonsense.” (p. 2)

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Posted By oldpigeon at 2009-09-16 16:59:26 permalink | comments

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