Home Grown

“A most welcome and important contribution to the history of marijuana prohibition. It has broadened our understanding of how we got to this place, and it belongs on the book shelf of every serious student of the topic.” — Drug War Chronicle

“Recommended. All levels/libraries.” — ###Choice

“Home Grown is a must read for historians, criminologists, analysts, and policy-makers, alike, especially those interested in understanding the origins of Mexico’s current political and social unrest, the cultural underpinnings for marijuana prohibition, or the broader ‘War on Drugs.’” — Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Review

“Campos remedies the scarcity of historical work on the origins of drug prohibition in Latin America while pointing out the need to better understand the causes and consequences of these prohibitions if we are to grasp the current 'War on Drugs.' . . . [This] book is a call to arms.” — American Historical Review

“You don’t have to be a ‘pothead’ to enjoy and learn from Isaac Campos’s pioneering and carefully researched inquiry into the special plant-commodity identified botanically as cannabis. . . . Campos’s study comprehensively examines the ecological, sociocultural, and political dimensions of the history of human interaction with a plant.” — Southwestern Historical Quarterly

“Campos has reconfigured our understanding of the flow of ideas about marijuana.” — Hispanic American Historical Review

“An engaging work of sociocultural history. . . . It deserves a wide reading.” — The Americas

“Home Grown is a necessary resource for any scholar of drug cultures, drug prohibition, or Mexican studies.” — Journal of Historical Geography

“A notable contribution.” — The Historian

“Campos has dug deeply into the digital and paper archives of Mexican popular media (newspapers and broadsides), government agencies, and medical and botanic sciences, from the age of conquistadors to the twentieth century. . . . Worthy of praise.” — World Medical and Health Policy