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Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
By Lee, Martin A.
- ISBN
- 978-1-43910-026-2
- Publisher
- Scribner
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Reviewed on September 1, 2012 | Social Science
In this exhaustive argument for the legalization of marijuana, framed as a history of the famous weed, Lee (Acid Dreams) asserts that the official U.S. response to marijuana cultivation, distribution, and use has long been wildly out of proportion to marijuana’s impact on its diverse users and on society at large. While countless people—disproportionately poor and of color—have been criminalized through prohibition enforcement during the rhetoric-laden War on Drugs, Lee notes that no dea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
