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PROHIBITION AND TOLERANCE: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CHANGES IN US DRUG POLICY (Abstract)
Andrés López Restrepo
Prohibition is the dominant paradigm to deal with drugs. In the case of the United States, prohibition has been built throughout the years in response to a series of perceptions, prejudices and values which have managed to impose themselves in their struggle with other cultural and social beliefs. For this reason, in order to understand the scope and intelligibility and to have the elements required to analyze future scenarios, the roots of drug prohibition in the United States must first be pinpointed.

With the aim of contributing to the comprehension of the emergence of prohibition, this essay covers the following topics: In the first chapter I sustain that the roots of prohibition are to be found in the incomplete nature of citizenship in the United States; in the second chapter I examine how alcohol prohibition became a crusade; while in the third I analyze how drug prohibition became a war, both at home and abroad; lastly, in the fourth chapter I reflect on a barely known drug phenomenon in the United States, the debate regarding the right of the members of the Native American Church to use peyote.

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