Weed Land – Inside America`s Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit de Peter Hecht

Weed Land – Inside America`s Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit

Peter Hecht

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2014

"Weed Land contains in-depth personal histories of those at the heart of the marijuana industry and law-reform movement in California. Hecht tells the protagonists' compelling stories with care in his well-written and well-researched work."
> "In this powerful account, Hecht reveals the origins of the modern medical cannabis movement and explores how it evolved from a small cadre of seriously ill patients, concerned doctors, and compassionate caregivers to an annual multibillion-dollar 'recreational industry.'"
--Jed Riffe, producer and director of Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law

"Weed Land documents the Wild West culture of California's marijuana industry on a journey from Hollywood to Humboldt, along with the hippies, healers, and hucksters who are changing American culture and politics. It's essential reading for anyone who is a fan of California's most lucrative agricultural product."
--Dale Maharidge, author of And Their Children After Them, winner of the 1990 nonfiction Pulitzer Prize

"Hecht artfully weaves together the whole history of the modern medical marijuana movement in California. Weed Land is an extremely engaging and satisfying read."
--Isaac Campos, Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati, and author of Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs

"The movement to legalize pot is in full swing, and if you want to understand how we got here, Peter Hecht's impressive Weed Land is the book to read. He's covered the story as thoroughly as any journalist in the country, and it shows."
--Gary Delsohn, chief speech writer to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2006-2009, and author of The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office

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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, this title reveals the changing political, legal, economic, and social dynamics around pot.