Unit 1 test Flashcards
How does culture influence the uses and meanings of drugs?
Culture plays a major role with how a culture perceive and use drugs. Cultures can determine whether or not they are legal or illegal. As well as guide you to how they use those drugs in their culture. For instance, the Amerindians and the British both uses tobacco. However they use tobacco in different ways. Amerindians uses tobacco for peace pipes while British uses it to help with constipation.
Where did different psychoactive substances originate?
Different psychoactive substances came from both the old and new world. Coffee originated in Ethiopia. Tobacco began in America. Wine making originated between the mountains of the black and Caspian Sea.
When and how did these substances like coffee and tobacco spread to other parts of the globe? how did the development of colonial trade and production figure this process?
These substances like coffee and tobacco began to spread to other parts of the globe through the use of trade. Once the Colombian exchange became a thing, colonies began trading businesses.They used this to seek opportunities to get goods, especially if they didn’t have money.
Psychoactive Revolution
mind-altering substances into the europeans market, affecting local and national economies
set and setting
ones mindset and the physical and social environment in which the user has experienced; ones mindset and environment factors into an experience
alkaloid
chemical/substance that releases a stimulant which either gives pleasant or toxic effect
indigenous uses of tobacco
they smoked it, chewed it, snuffed it, and some drank it (drinking smoke); diplomacy pipe passing, medical uses, shamanic uses, and social smoking
tobacco and cohoba
natives of Hispaniola had tobacco in religious events where the smoke was put into the nose w/ a forked pipe fitted to both nostrils w/ the smoke burning the herb until they become senseless
snuff and snuff boxes/bottles
crushed tobacco stuffed into a can , if you had guest, you would offer it to them first, used amongst high class people
pipes, cigars, cigarettes
became cigarettes because it was more convenient to use; more portable and quicker to smoke
old world vs new world(drug geography)
tobacco began in Virginia colony and became the worlds biggest production; spread to Europe,asia & Africa through colonial trade
the columbian exchange
transfer of ideas, people, plants & animals, technology, and diseases; tobacco became s substitute for currency worth the same as silver
empires (ottoman, Portuguese, dutch, British)
dutch broke away Yemen monopoly and began planting coffee in java; other European empires followed starting coffee plantations; Brazil (p), Suriname (d), and st. domingue (fr)
licit vs illicit
licit are legal substances (caffeine, alcohol,& tobacco) and illicit are illegal substances(opiates, cannabis, cocaine).
culture vs pharmacology
used to counteract poison or treat sores and wounds, treatment for rhem; smoked to clear fluid from brain; tobacco enema helped with constipation
