F. d’Eaubonne, C-P. PAJARD et P. ULRICH. Geneva, Famot, 247 pages.
Françoise took charge of the first part, the history of drugs, covering 130 pages. This commissioned work is not as bland as one might fear. Although dated, it nevertheless evokes the establishment by colonial states of a lucrative trade, with complete disregard for the health of the populations.
England with opium, the Netherlands with cocaine. In short, the first drug traffickers, who inspired the economic structures of contemporary trafficking…
It is also in this book that I find the first trace of the term Sexocide, with a short summary of what would become, five years later, Le sexocide des sorcières (The Sexocide of Witches).