Weed land : inside America's marijuana epicenter and how pot went legit / Peter Hecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hecht, Peter, 1956-

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.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, [California] ; Los Angeles, California ; London, England : University of California Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

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 index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Hecht, Peter, 1956- Weed land : inside America's marijuana epicenter and how pot went legit.

ISBN:

9780520958241

OCLC:

868277441

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.