title: Marijuana: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
author:  David E. Newton 
description: "Any library that supports research for reports or that serves adults who need more information on the topic will need to add this title." - <strong>Library Journal</strong><br /><br />"This handy reference work will be most useful in school and undergraduate libraries where students will be seeking information on marijuana and the controversy surrounding the legalizing of the substance." - <strong>ARBA</strong>
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  Pay Attention to Afican Cannabis
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  Cannabis and Afica
  Marijuana does not cause trypanosomiasis. Tis is one fact I  will ofer.
  I  will not ofer much information on other topics some readers might ex-
  pect in a book about marijuana and Africa. I ofer very  little about Rastafari-
  anism, for instance, and mention Bob Marley just once more.  Tese examples 
  are crucial in a history of cannabis broader than this one. My research period 
  ends in approximately 1925, a few years before Rastafarianism arose in Jamaica. 
  I have chosen 1925  because this was when cannabis was frst listed in an inter-
  national drug- control agreement, which initiated the now familiar condition 
  of global cannabis prohibition. Tis book is about what preceded the familiar.
  For th