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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.
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.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 264
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
07 April 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520275430
Format: Paperback
"With journalistic bravura, Sacramento Bee reporter Hecht captures California’s odyssey to legalize marijuana with immediacy, personality, and objectivity. . . . Hecht’s cautionary and deftly written account is an animated examination of how too much, too soon, almost doomed a movement."
"In the right hands, nonfiction can be more compelling than fiction. . . . [Hecht] presents a definitive, dramatic chronology of pot and the people who research it, grow it, sell it, use it and regulate it."
— Allen Pierleoni
"Peter Hecht, a journalist at The Sacramento Bee, charts the evolution of California’s medical marijuana law, the first in the nation."
— Jerome Groopman
"A comprehensive and compelling report on the weed wars still raging across the country."
Peter Hecht is a senior writer for The Sacramento Bee. His reporting on the marijuana phenomenon was honored in the Best of the West journalism awards and earned an Excellence in Journalism prize from the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
1. The Way It Was Supposed to Be
2. Oaksterdam
3. Kush Rush
4. Reefer Research
5. The Pot Docs
6. L.A. Excess
7. Wafting Widely
8. Courting Compassion
9. Martyrdom for the Missionaries
10. Campaign for Cannabis
11. A Mile High and Beyond
12. Cultivating Trouble
13. Return of the Feds
14. Back to the Garden
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
2. Oaksterdam
3. Kush Rush
4. Reefer Research
5. The Pot Docs
6. L.A. Excess
7. Wafting Widely
8. Courting Compassion
9. Martyrdom for the Missionaries
10. Campaign for Cannabis
11. A Mile High and Beyond
12. Cultivating Trouble
13. Return of the Feds
14. Back to the Garden
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index