Reading: The Great Intoxication (Why Drugs are Criminalized)

If you wanted to buy drugs in the western world at the beginning of the 19th century, you went to the pharmacy. Anyone who wanted to buy drugs in the western world at the beginning of the 21st century had to go to their dealer. How medicines became intoxicants, intoxicants became narcotics and narcotics became illegal drugs - read aloud by the Freiburg author Helena Barop. Siedler Verlag 2023 - nominated for the prize for the best science book of the year 2024.