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Weed land : inside America's marijuana epicenter and how pot went legit / Peter Hecht.
LIBRA HV5822.M3 H43 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hecht, Peter, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marijuana--California.
- Marijuana.
- Marijuana--Therapeutic use--California.
- Marijuana--Law and legislation--California.
- Marijuana industry--California.
- Marijuana industry.
- Marijuana--Law and legislation.
- Marijuana--Therapeutic use.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine, is the riveting opening scene in Weed Land, an up-close journalistic narrative that chronicles a transformative epoch for marijuana in America. 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Way It Was Supposed to Be 1
- 2 Oaksterdam 15
- 3 Kush Rush 30
- 4 Reefer Research 45
- 5 The Pot Docs 64
- 6 L.A. Excess 79
- 7 Wafting Widely 92
- 8 Courting Compassion 106
- 9 Martyrdom for the Missionaries 121
- 10 Campaign for Cannabis 138
- 11 A Mile High and Beyond 156
- 12 Cultivating Trouble 170
- 13 Return of the Feds 186
- 14 Back to the Garden 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520275430
- 0520275438
- OCLC:
- 861322929
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