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Grass Roots (Hardcover)
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How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and
other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana In the last
five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To
many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar
trajectory forty years ago, only to encounter a fierce backlash. 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. Soon, though, concerned
parents began to mobilize; finding a champion in Nancy Reagan, they
transformed pot into a national scourge and helped to pave the way
for an aggressive war on drugs. Chastened marijuana advocates
retooled their message, promoting pot as a medical necessity and
eventually declaring legalization a matter of racial justice. For
the moment, these activists are succeeding -- but marijuana's
history suggests how swiftly another counterrevolution could
unfold.
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