Weed land : inside America's marijuana epicenter and how pot went legit
Title:
Weed land : inside America's marijuana epicenter and how pot went legit
Author:
Hecht, Peter, 1956- , author.
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Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
254 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:
From the 1996 passage of California's Proposition 215, the nation's first medical marijuana law, through law enforcement raids, clinical studies that revealed medical benefits for cannabis, and the emergence of a lucrative cannabis industry, Weed Land reveals the changing political, legal, economic, and social dynamics around pot. Peter Hecht, an award-winning journalist from The Sacramento Bee, offers an independent, meticulously reported account of the clashes and contradictions of a burgeoning California cannabis culture that stoked pot liberalization across the country.
Language:
English
Contents:
The way it was supposed to be -- Oaksterdam -- Kush rush -- Reefer research -- The pot docs -- L.A. excess -- Wafting widely -- Courting compassion -- Martyrdom for the missionaries -- Campaign for cannabis -- A mile high and beyond -- Cultivating trouble -- Return of the feds -- Back to the garden.
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ISBN:
9780520275430
Format :
Book
