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Dec 14, 20124 min read

Conferenece Report: Cannabis Roots: The Hidden History of Marijuana

Editor’s Note: Guest Blogger Chris Bennet takes us inside the Cannabis Roots Conference held this November in Vancouver, Canada —...

Jack Halberstam

Dec 12, 20128 min read

The Wire at Ten– Jack Halberstam, “The King Stay the King”

Dec 11, 20121 min read

Calls for Papers

CFP: Big Events, Substance Use and Interventions — A Global Perspective

Dec 10, 20124 min read

Java Coca and the Dutch Narcotics Industry: An Almost Forgotten 20th C. History of Drugs Story

Dec 7, 20125 min read

Points Interviews

Points Interview — Frank Priestley

Dec 5, 20126 min read

The Wire at Ten: Stanley Corkin, Drugs and The Ecology of the Ghetto

Dec 4, 20124 min read

Desperate Mothers, Only Sons: The ‘Moral Reformation’ of China’s Internet Addicted Youth

Nov 30, 20124 min read

What’s the matter with Georgia? Thoughts on substance abuse statistics, policy, and history

Nov 29, 20125 min read

Sobriety is Boring

Nov 28, 20126 min read

The Wire at Ten: Sergio Campos, “Lambs to the Slaughter Here”

David Courtwright

Nov 26, 20123 min read

Booze and Pilots: Flight

Stephen Snelders

Nov 25, 20125 min read

Stephen Snelders

Santa Claus, Mushroom Beer, and the Dutch

Nov 23, 20125 min read

Special report: Addiction treatment growing as a financial investment

Nov 21, 20127 min read

The Wire at Ten: Carlo Rotella, “The Case Against ‘Kojak Liberalism'”

Nov 19, 20126 min read

Medieval Drugs III: How Do I Drug Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.

Nov 16, 20122 min read

LSE IDEAS: The Global Drug Wars

Nov 15, 20125 min read

Kevin Kaufmann, “‘Rigorous Honesty’: A Cultural History of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1

Nov 14, 20124 min read

The Wire at Ten: Joe Spillane, “I’ve Never Watched The Wire”

Nov 13, 20121 min read

Points Blog Seeks Managing Editor

Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, seeks a new managing editor for a two-year term beginning January 2013. This...

Nov 13, 20126 min read

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