by Antonio Escohotado · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420646404
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«Las drogas: De los orígenes a la prohibición» is the historical essay by Antonio Escohotado, published by Alianza in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
Antonio Escohotado studies the role of drugs, from ritual uses in antiquity to the 1920 prohibition. In this essay he examines the influence of drugs on religion, medicine, art and social control, and recovers the classical definition of a drug as a substance capable of causing major organic or psychological changes.
Originally published in 1994 in the Alianza Cien collection by Alianza Editorial; the book measures 14.8 x 9.9 cm.
For the general public interested in a historical view of drugs and the process that led to their prohibition.
Antonio Escohotado Espinosa, commonly called Antonio Escohotado, was a Spanish philosopher, jurist, essayist and university professor. His life's work primarily focused on law, philosophy and sociology, yet extended to many other disciplines. Escohotado gained public renown for his research on drugs and for his well-known anti-prohibitionist positions. One of his best known works is The General History of Drugs. The leitmotif of his work is, in the same way, an affirmation of freedom as an antidote to fear or the constraints that push the human being towards all kinds of servitude. His thought fits into the framework of libertarian liberalism.
