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Author Hecht, Peter, 1956- author.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.45 HECHT    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  363.45 HEC    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.45 H35    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  363.4509 HECHT    Check Shelf
Description 254 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-237) and index.
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 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.
Subject Marijuana -- California.
Marijuana -- Therapeutic use -- California.
Marijuana -- Law and legislation -- California.
Marijuana industry -- California.
ISBN 9780520275430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520275438 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520958241 (e-book)
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