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    Marijuana: A Short History

    By John Hudak

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    From Reefer Madness to legal purchase at the corner store.

    With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the United States, the time has come for an accessible and informative look at attitudes toward the dried byproduct of Cannabis sativa. Marijuana: A Short History profiles the politics and policies concerning the five-leaf plant in the United States and around the world.

    Millions of Americans have used marijuana at some point in their lives, yet it remains a substance shrouded by myth, misinformation, and mystery. This book offers an up-to-date, cutting-edge look at how a plant with a tumultuous history has emerged from the shadows of counterculture and illegality. Today, marijuana has become a remarkable social, economic, and even political force, with a surprising range of advocates and opponents. Public policy toward marijuana, especially in the United States, is changing rapidly. Marijuana: A Short History provides a brief yet compelling narrative that discusses the social and cultural history of marijuana but also tells us how a once-vilified plant has been transformed into a serious, even mainstream, public policy issue. Focusing on politics, the media, government, and education, the book describes why public policy has changed, and what that change might mean for marijuana’s future place in society.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrookings Institution Press
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9780815729075
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      Read from November 02 to 05, 2016Writing a short paper on marijuana policy? Read this book. Or need more sources for a larger project on marijuana and drug policy? Read this book and scour the footnotes. Want to be an educated voter when it comes to legalization of marijuana in your state? Read this book and find out more about the specifics of the ballot initiative. This book is a quick look at marijuana policy in the US. It covers it from the very beginning of our nation when it was legal and grown (and occasionally used) by our Founding Fathers to present day where states rights meet Federal regulations meet the will of the people. It's it the most fascinating read, but it's definitely interesting and good to know.It's especially fascinating to me that there have been multiple commissions on drugs/marijuana, etc and each time the commission reported back that marijuana was not nearly as harmful as previous reports suggested, that it should not be Schedule I, that it did have medicinal benefits, and that punishments should be more on par with fines than jail time. Because that definitely isn't what they taught me during all of those DARE programs.

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