Composed by 23 articles, the book is about themes that highlight the relation between marihuana and racism; religiousness and shamanism; marihuana as “public security problem”; ethnobotany; drug addiction; “dazzle and straightness”; afro-brazilian cults; domestic selfcultivation; and ethnographies about diverse cultural areas: Jamaica, Mexico and Himalaya. The compilation points the way that the marihuana and other drugs’ prohibition works as a strategy of political and social control over groups considered “dangerous” in different historical moments.