Artificial Paradises

Question: Who was the first to link hashish to the members of the “Hashish Brotherhood” (the Hashishin/Assassins)?

1

שאלה #193518

		A) Marco Polo
		B) Silvestre de Sacy
		C) De Quincey
		D) Édouard Liénard

Explanation: The lectures credit Silvestre de Sacy with making the philological argument that connected the term Hashishin/Hashishiyyin to hashish in European scholarship, helping cement the association in modern European writing. (Lecture/Reading: Guba de Sacy, “de Sacy and the myth of the Hashishin”.)

מיין לפי

Question: What is the basis for the connection between the “Hashish Brotherhood” and hashish?

1

שאלה #193529

		A) A depiction of the “Old Man” giving them a drink made from hashish
		B) Marco Polo’s description matches people who made hashish
		C) A book written by an Egyptian soldier, describing how he saw the Brotherhood take hashish
		D) Sunni sources that referred to the Brotherhood as “Hashishin,” as a derogatory label

Explanation: The lectures emphasize that the hashish link rests mainly on polemical Sunni sources that used Hashishiyyin/Hashishin as a term of abuse, later taken up and reinterpreted by European writers (not on direct evidence of systematic hashish use). (Lecture/Reading: Guba de Sacy, “de Sacy and the myth of the Hashishin”; also in Ram, Hashishophobia.)

מיין לפי

Question: Who was Silvestre de Sacy?

1

שאלה #193530

		A) A French Orientalist and professor who founded modern Oriental studies
		B) A French lord who opposed hashish use in France
		C) A French general in Napoleon’s army who brought hashish consumption in Egypt closer to Europe and therefore opposed the idea
		D) A French priest from the 12th century who described hashish for the first time in Egypt

Explanation: In the lectures, Silvestre de Sacy is presented as a foundational French Orientalist—a key scholar who helped establish modern Oriental studies and whose philological work influenced European understandings of terms like “Hashishin.” (Lecture/Reading: Guba de Sacy and the myth of the Hashishin; also referenced in Ram, Hashishophobia.)

מיין לפי

Question: What does the term “hashish club” refer to?

1

שאלה #193531

		A) French Orientalists of the Hashish Brotherhood, who tried to investigate the sect as part of Orientalist research
		B) 19th-century philosophers and French writers who met to drink and eat hashish and write about it
		C) Egyptian scientists who researched hashish in Egypt
		D) French lords who loved hashish and claimed they were part of the Hashish Brotherhood

Explanation: In the lectures, the “Hashish Club” refers to the Parisian circle (often discussed as Club des Hashischins) of 19th-century writers/intellectuals who experimented with hashish and produced texts about those experiences. (Lecture/Reading: Boon, The Road of Excess, Chapter 3; also connected to European hashish imaginaries in Ram, Hashishophobia.)

מיין לפי

Question: What does the term “the yellow peril” refer to?

1

שאלה #193532

		A) French fear of Chinese settlers who corrupted French society
		B) British fear, centered in the mid-19th century, of the opium trade between China and Britain
		C) American fear, in the late 19th century, that Chinese immigrants would corrupt American society
		D) Chinese fear of being dependent on drugs, after losing the Opium Wars

Explanation: In the lectures, “the yellow peril” is framed as a late-19th-century American racial panic about Chinese immigrants as a threatening presence that would “corrupt” society—often linked to anti-Chinese politics and the stigmatization of opium dens. (Lecture/Reading: Wright, Not Just a “Place for the Smoking of Opium”; also fits the “reverse colonialism” anxiety discussed in Ram, Squaring the Circle.)

מיין לפי

Question: What is the significance of the Harrison Act enacted in the United States in 1914?

1

שאלה #193533

		A) A law that treated drug users not as criminals but as patients. The first American legislative framework that limited drug use to medical use only.
		B) A law intended to restrict Chinese immigration to the U.S. and to limit the number of immigrants entering the U.S.
		C) A law intended to restrict marijuana use only.
		D) A law that imposed taxes on drug prescriptions.

Explanation: In the lectures, the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (1914) is presented as a key U.S. turning point that medicalized and regulated narcotics by restricting their legal distribution to medical channels, framing non-medical use as illegitimate and putting “addiction” under medical/legal control. (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; also consistent with U.S. anti-opium/anti-Chinese regulation context in Wright, Not Just a “Place for the Smoking of Opium”.)

מיין לפי

Question: Which minority groups associated opium and marijuana in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century?

1

שאלה #193534

		A) Marijuana was linked to Mexicans, and opium was linked to Chinese immigrants
		B) Opium was linked to Black people, and marijuana was linked to Chinese immigrants
		C) Marijuana was linked to Indians, and opium was linked to Black people
		D) Marijuana was linked to Black people, and opium was linked to Chinese immigrants

Explanation: In the lectures, early U.S. drug panics racialized substances: opium was stigmatized through association with Chinese immigrants/opium dens, while cannabis later became linked to Mexicans. The lectures also note that before this “Mexican” association, smoked cannabis use was attributed to Africans who arrived in the U.S.; once cannabis was identified with Mexicans, it was framed as a foreign drug. Relatedly, the term “marijuana” became common only after this Mexican association—before that it was generally referred to as “cannabis.” (Lecture/Reading: Wright, Not Just a “Place for the Smoking of Opium”; broader racialized framing also discussed in Ram, Squaring the Circle.)

נערך לפני 3 חודשים Omri Aviram

מיין לפי

Question: Who was Harry J. Anslinger?

1

שאלה #193535

		A) The head of British intelligence in India in 1872; he researched hashish’s effects on locals and imposed restrictions
		B) An American writer who wrote about his experiences with hashish in the U.S.
		C) The head of the U.S. drug bureau; appointed in 1930, he had major influence on U.S. drug policy, considered the “father of the global drug regime”
		D) A British lord who influenced British opium production in India

Explanation: In the lectures, Harry J. Anslinger is presented as the long-serving head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics (from 1930), a central figure in building U.S. anti-drug policy and shaping international prohibition frameworks—hence the “father of the global drug regime” framing. (Lecture/Reading: Boon, The Road of Excess, Chapter 3; also connected to modern control regimes in Breen, The Age of Intoxication.)

מיין לפי

Question: What symptoms did the head of the American Bureau of Narcotics claim occurred as a result of marijuana use in the United States in the 1930s?

1

שאלה #193536

		A) “Matz” ( causes weight gain), lack of concentration, and fatigue
		B) Hallucinatory rage, sexual dreams, and eventually madness
		C) Calmness, happiness, and eventually depression
		D) Headaches, dizziness, and fatigue

Explanation: In the lectures, Anslinger-era rhetoric is presented as a moral panic that attributed extreme, sensational “symptoms” to marijuana—here: hallucinatory rage, sexual dreams, and madness—to justify harsher control. (Lecture/Reading: Boon, The Road of Excess, Chapter 3.)

מיין לפי

Question: When was the marijuana tax law enacted in the United States, and what did it determine?

1

שאלה #193537

		A) It was enacted in 1937. It determined that anyone who grew, sold, or used marijuana must register and pay a tax of $100 per 28 grams, and a fine of $285.
		B) It was enacted in 1922. It determined that every household that sold hashish must pay a tax of $300 for every 100 grams sold.
		C) It was enacted in 1928. It determined that anyone who grew, sold, or used marijuana must register and pay a tax of $100 for every 28 grams of marijuana.
		D) It was enacted in 1950. It determined that a tax must be paid on importing marijuana into the United States.

Explanation: The lectures describe the 1937 U.S. Marijuana Tax Act as a key step in prohibition by regulating marijuana through mandatory registration and taxation, effectively criminalizing non-compliance and restricting the market. (Lecture/Reading: Boon, The Road of Excess, Chapter 3; also linked to Anslinger-era policy.)

מיין לפי

Discuss, Learn and be Happy דיון בשאלות

Question: Who was the first to link hashish to the members of the “Hashish Brotherhood” (the Hashishin/Assassins)?

Question: What is the basis for the connection between the “Hashish Brotherhood” and hashish?

Question: Who was Silvestre de Sacy?

Question: What does the term “hashish club” refer to?

Question: What does the term “the yellow peril” refer to?

Question: What is the significance of the Harrison Act enacted in the United States in 1914?

Question: Which minority groups associated opium and marijuana in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century?

Question: Who was Harry J. Anslinger?

Question: What symptoms did the head of the American Bureau of Narcotics claim occurred as a result of marijuana use in the United States in the 1930s?

Question: When was the marijuana tax law enacted in the United States, and what did it determine?

בקשה לשינוי התשובה / תיקון שאלה gavel

בקשה למחיקת השאלהmood_bad

בקשה לשינוי התשובה / תיקון שאלה

בקשה למחיקת השאלה