0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > Drug addiction & substance abuse

Not currently available

Killer Weed - Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,591
Discovery Miles 15 910
You Save: R215 (12%)
Killer Weed - Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice (Hardcover, New): Susan C Boyd, Connie Carter

Killer Weed - Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice (Hardcover, New)

Susan C Boyd, Connie Carter

 (sign in to rate)
List price R1,806 Loot Price R1,591 Discovery Miles 15 910 | Repayment Terms: R149 pm x 12* You Save R215 (12%)

Bookmark and Share

Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.

Since the late 1990s, marijuana grow operations have been identified by media and others as a new and dangerous criminal activity of "epidemic" proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their analysis of fifteen years of newspaper coverage to show how consensus about the dangerous people and practices associated with marijuana cultivation was created and disseminated by numerous spokespeople including police, RCMP, and the media in Canada. The authors focus on the context of media reports in Canada to show how claims about marijuana cultivation have intensified the perception that this activity poses "significant" dangers to public safety and thus is an appropriate target for Canada's war on drugs. Boyd and Carter carefully show how the media draw on the same spokespeople to tell the same story again and again, and how a limited number of messages has led to an expanding anti-drug campaign that uses not only police, but BC Hydro and local municipalities to crack down on drug production. Going beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged from the media narrative have troubling consequences for a shrinking Canadian civil society.

General

Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: February 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Susan C Boyd • Connie Carter
Dimensions: 234 x 161 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-4367-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Drugs trade / drug trafficking
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > Drug addiction & substance abuse
Promotions
LSN: 1-4426-4367-6
Barcode: 9781442643673

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

The Code - The Power Of "I Will"
Shaun Tomson, Patrick Moser Paperback  (2)
R165 R149 Discovery Miles 1 490
Guns And Needles - A Journey Into The…
Clinton Van Der Berg Paperback R280 R165 Discovery Miles 1 650
Empire Of Pain - The Secret History of…
Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback R385 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470
... En Daar Was Dagga - 'n Biografie
Heinz Modler Paperback R285 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570
From Whiskey To Water
Sam Cowen Paperback  (1)
R328 Discovery Miles 3 280
Marijuana Legalization - What Everyone…
Jonathan P Caulkins, Angela Hawken, … Hardcover R1,976 Discovery Miles 19 760
Understanding Drugs of Abuse - The…
Mim J. Landry Paperback R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220
Tobacco - Science, policy and public…
Peter Boyle, Nigel Gray, … Hardcover R4,530 Discovery Miles 45 300
Marijuana Legalization - What Everyone…
Jonathan P Caulkins, Beau Kilmer, … Hardcover R1,799 Discovery Miles 17 990
A Bridge to Recovery - An Introduction…
Robert L. DuPont, John P. McGovern Hardcover R1,534 R1,457 Discovery Miles 14 570
Dopesick - Dealers, Doctors and the Drug…
Beth Macy Paperback R318 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900
Smashed in the USSR
Caroline Walton, Ivan Petrov Paperback  (1)
R313 Discovery Miles 3 130

See more

Partners