Summary Of Homegrown By Isaac Campos

The modernization of ideas and culture in America have brought forth a lot of change since the years after the revolution. One of the major ideologies that have major effect on United States and Mexican culture and policy, is Marijuana. In Homegrown, Isaac Campos studies several federal publications, such as laws, written policies, etc. and some records of arrests involving the use of Marijuana. Campos portrays Latin American society in this story to help represent the outlook on Marijuana and the effects its presence had, compared to the softer opinion towards the drug today. Campos uses these events in Mexican history to argue that the “War on Drugs” began in Latin America during the Spanish Colonization and extended into North America at

These various acts involved heavy hallucinations and enhanced angry hormones in most to all users recorded. Campos uses acts such as these to help represent what effected the country of Mexico, increased the media activity, and focus on the subject of marijuana and it’s reported negative effects on its users. In chapter four, Campos uses a variety of examples that involved violence from a reaction of insult, order, etc.…: “Most cases of this kind (madness) involved soldiers, prisoners, or individuals performing violent acts against others with whom they were acquainted with someway ... But another form more frightening was also present, “running amok”(98-99). The idea of madness was brought forth from the actions recorded from primary sources recorded of incidents involving marijuana influence that would be presented in media sources (newspapers) throughout the populace

While the spread of marijuana was going through Mexico, the United States began taking in the drug near the beginning of the twentieth century. One issue that caused the spread of marijuana domestically, was the influence that Mexico gained from the press’ stories and report on marijuana and the different kinds mentioned in chapter eight, such as “locoweed, loco poison, and weed of bughouse propensities” (214). As the stories of weed began to scatter into the United States, newspapers picked up on it and began to say marijuana “effects a smoker making them wilder than a wild beast” (215). The more the ideas and culture of marijuana put forth by the Mexican and United States press, eventually helped lead to the prohibition in Mexico in 1920. This prohibition in 1920 helped Mexico portray a public victory against marijuana during what became a first structural “War on Drugs” by Mexican government and