Canonical contributor authority record for Bob L. Beach. Identity and 2020 publication-time biography were verified from rendered PDF sheets 210–213.
Authority summary
Historian whose doctoral work examined cannabis knowledge in New York City; author of the volume's marijuana-comparison chapter.
Contribution to Prohibition's Greatest Myths
Chapter 10 tests whether modern marijuana-legalization debates reproduce the politics that ended alcohol Prohibition.
Project use and boundary
Peripheral to the American-whiskey project. Use only as a caution against superficial policy analogies, and update all contemporary marijuana claims with current specialist sources.