| Description |
xxvi, 262 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-262). |
| Contents |
Prologue: "Living the dream" -- Pot Street, USA -- Rocky Mountain high -- Reefer madness, pot peddlers, and dope fiends: how pot became poison -- One toke over the line: summer of 1991 -- Home is where the pot is -- Up in smoke -- Growing pains and Ganja Gurus -- Unlocking the doors of perception -- First, do no harm -- Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: auditors with guns -- Misty mountain hop -- Epilogue: A sea of green from coast to coast. |
| Summary |
"Greg Campbell is just about the last person you'd suspect of growing pot in his basement. A few ill-fated experiences in college revealed he was a terrible stoner, and in the years since, he's not given the green stuff another thought. But his attitude changed when medical marijuana was legalized in his home state of Colorado in 2009. It set off a tsunami activity that was viewed by opposing camps as either Nirvana or the Apocalypse. Dispensaries popped up overnight, and as Greg watched the flurry, he thought: Why not me? POT OF GOLD chronicles Greg's venture into ganjapreneurealism. Along the way, he learn not only how to grow pot, but he also gained an invaluable education into the truth about marijuana's value as a medicine. Traveling from California's famed Humbolt County to the first-annual Medical Marijuana Education Expo to Oklahoma (where a man was sentenced to 93 years for growing marijuana to treat chronic arthritis), Greg unearths ignorance about pot's centuries-old therapeutic value (an ignorance the government is desperate to maintain) as well as his own personal connection to its medicinal value. "--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Marijuana -- Therapeutic use -- United States.
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Drug legalization -- United States.
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| Added Title |
Inside medical marijuana, America's most outlaw industry |
| ISBN |
9781402779251 hardcover $22.95 |
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1402779259 hardcover |
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