| Description |
xlv, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
If you were inclined to stereotype, incline the other way -- Yes, but does the topic pass the Rwanda test? -- The day a cannabis farmer cried out,"Thank God, the police." -- Adventures with Vioxx -- If your cancer treatment options can cost you your job, you might be living under a policy in need of change -- Reporting to you from inside the bubble within the bubble within the bubble -- The end of "green, leafy" as cultural profanity and the birth of the redneck hippie --Setting industry standards for a post-drug war craft cannabis market -- Redneck hippie capitalism -- A valuable truck burying -- Intergenerational neighborhood relations in cannabis culture -- Replication of the clones -- Birth of the Lucille triplets and Tomas's crop comes home -- Lucille's Gregor Mendel -- The zip-tie program comes of age, musically, before my eyes -- The mostly volunteer Kama Karma work crew arrives -- A farmer is a farmer is a farmer -- Emergence of a sustainable outdoor cannabis cultivator -- Collective farming in the time of helicopters -- Punks in paradise : seeing the behavior from which the human Lucille's concerns derive -- A modern agricultural businessman prepares for a Fourth of July regulatory inspection -- The zip-tie program survives the federal eye -- How a plastic zip tie undergoes a 50,000 percent markup and becomes an insurance policy -- In which I discover that I had already run the gauntlet, and learn of the Northstone Two -- Panzer's paradox -- Redirecting Prison, Inc. -- Lucille harvest emergency -- Trimming with buds -- The stigma front : should storefront cannabis dispensaries be relegated to red light districts? -- Bubble breach -- The thirteen-billion-dollar economic hit -- Meet the patients -- Pharmakon and the complex molecule -- Visions of the coming drug peace : the tipping point for cannabis reclassification and regulation. |
| Summary |
Is there a sustainable solution that can put billions back into the economy every year while decimating the murderous drug cartels and returning the small American family farmer to his fields? To answer this question, Doug Fine spent a year in the hills of California's Mendocino County, where he discovered that county law enforcement in fact issues permits to cannabis cultivators for a fee, which cumulatively saved seven deputy sheriffs' jobs in 2011. Shadowing a cadre of American farmers who seemed ready for mainstream taxpayer status, he braved incomprehensible federal policies and questionable raids in his mission to follow one farmer's cannabis plant, named Lucille, from planting to patient. Ultimately, Fine examined what a cannabis economy will be worth to the U.S. balance sheet when the War on Drugs ends. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Marijuana -- Economic aspects.
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Marijuana industry.
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| ISBN |
9781592407095: $28.00 |
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1592407099 |
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