Weed Land: Inside America's Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520275430)

Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine, is the riveting opening scene in Weed Land, an up-close journalistic narrative that chronicles a transformative epoch for marijuana in America.

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.

Author: Peter Hecht
ISBN-10: 0520275438
ISBN-13: 9780520275430
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2014
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.96w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/17/2014
Booklist 04/01/2014 pg. 6
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2014