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Grass roots : a history of cannabis in the American West / Nick Johnson.
- Title
- Grass roots : a history of cannabis in the American West / Nick Johnson.
- Author
- Johnson, Nick (Nicholas Michael), 1989-
- Publication
- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV5822.C3 J64 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 234 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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."--book cover
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Subject
- Cannabis > West (U.S.) > History
- Marijuana > West (U.S.) > History
- Cannabis
- Marijuana
- Cannabis > growth & development
- Marijuana Use > legislation & jurisprudence
- Marijuana Use > history
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- Abortion, Induced
- West United States
- Northwestern United States
- Southwestern United States
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From medicine to menace: drug cannabis in the Southwest and beyond, 1851/1935 -- Prohibition is for the birds: nature, race, and the Marihuana Tax Act -- Workers' weed: cannabis and labor in the rural West -- Seeding the nation: cannabis and the counterculture, 1960/1980 -- Black market blues: capitalized cannabis and the environment, 1980/1996 -- Legalizing it: medical cannabis and the push for a sustainable future.
- ISBN
- 9780870719080
- 0870719084
- LCCN
- ^^2017030868
- OCLC
- 983824171
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library