Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XZZXM39 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Emily Dufton holds a PhD in American Studies from George Washington University. She lives in Washington, DC
To many, continued progress seems certain. For the moment, these activists are succeeding--but marijuana's history suggests how swiftly another counterrevolution could unfold.. In Grass Roots, historian Emily Dufton tells the remarkable story of marijuana's crooked path from acceptance to demonization and back again, and of the thousands of grassroots activists who made changing marijuana laws their life's work.During the 1970s, pro-pot campaigners with roots in the counterculture secured the drug's decriminalization in a dozen states. How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuanaIn the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. But pot
Emily Dufton's passion for her subject matches the fervor of the pro- and anti-marijuana movements she chronicles. "A balanced, comprehensive, scrupulously researched, and vividly rendered narrative cultural and political history of marijuana in America. This book puts her well on the way to becoming one of the preeminent drug historians of her generation."--Martin Torgoff, author of Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs and Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000