{"product_id":"9781921361432","title":"Consuming Pleasures: Australia and the International Drug Business","description":"Author: Rainford, John\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781921361432\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Fremantle Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Feb 2009\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsuming Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e traces the international and Australian history of licit and illicit drug use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt examines why we consume and what we consume, as well as the way in which consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt also looks at drug use from an Australian perspective, going back to our own opium-growing industry and the racist origins of our drug laws. In doing so it considers the paradox of contemporary white Australian identity- on the one hand an image of fit, sun-bronzed athletic types at home in the surf; on the other a nation of people whose per capita drug consumption often equals and more often than not surpasses that of most other nations.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48037293850782,"sku":"ING-9781921361432","price":36.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781921361432.jpg?v=1785070066","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781921361432","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}