Grass roots
Subtitle: a history of cannabis in the American West
By: Nick Johnson
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780870719080
Subjects: Cannabis; Marijuana; History
Description: "Marijuana legalization is unfolding across the American West, but cultivation of the cannabis plant is anything but green. Unregulated outdoor grows are polluting ecosystems, high-powered indoor grows are churning out an excessive carbon footprint, and the controversial crop is becoming an agricultural boon just as the region faces an unprecedented water crisis. To understand how we got here and how the legal cannabis industry might become more environmentally sustainable, Grass Roots looks at the history of marijuana growing in the American West, from early Mexican American growers on sugar beet farms to today's sophisticated greenhouse gardens. Author Nick Johnson argues that the most environmentally negligent farming practices- such as indoor growing- were borne out of prohibition. Now those same practices are continuing under legalization."--Back of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From medicine to menace: drug cannabis in the Southwest and beyond, 1851/1935; title: Prohibition is for the birds: nature, race, and the Marihuana Tax Act; title: Workers' weed: cannabis and labor in the rural West; title: Seeding the nation: cannabis and the counterculture, 1960/1980; title: Black market blues: capitalized cannabis and the environment, 1980/1996; title: Legalizing it: medical cannabis and the push for a sustainable future.