| Description |
1 online resource (254 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed October 30, 2014) |
| Subject |
Marijuana -- California
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Marijuana -- Therapeutic use -- California
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Marijuana -- Law and legislation -- California
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Marijuana industry -- California
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Marijuana
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Marijuana industry
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Marijuana -- Law and legislation
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Marijuana -- Therapeutic use
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California
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306329779 |
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9781306329774 |
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9780520958241 |
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0520958241 |
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0520275446 |
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9780520275447 |
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