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In the United States, cannabis is currently illegal, but this book investigates how big pharmaceutical companies are looking at an end-game of legality-controlled by them. It examines how the Amsterdam scene has been transformed; how home growers have been manipulated into using inferior techniques; and how companies, with help from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and "big pharma," are patenting cannabis strains for control and profit. The leadership of the cannabis industry want to legalize marijuana with taxation and regulation, but the phar
Patent medicines --- Marijuana --- Marijuana --- Pharmaceutical industry --- Marijuana industry --- Law and legislation --- Therapeutic use --- Law and legislation --- United States.
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Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970's, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers, from surfers looking to finance their endless summers to wide-eyed hippie true believers and lethal marauders left over from the Vietnam War. Moving a shipment of Thai sticks from northeast Thailand farms to American consumers meant navigating one of the most complex smuggling channels in the history of the drug trade. Many forget that until the mid-1970's, the vast majority of marijuana consumed in the United States was imported, and there was little to no domestic production. Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter are the first historians to document this underground industry, the only record of its existence rooted in the fading memories of its elusive participants. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement agents, the authors recount the buy, delivery, voyage home, and product offload. They capture the eccentric personalities of the men and women who transformed the Thai marijuana trade from a GI cottage industry into a professionalized business moving the world's most lucrative commodities, unraveling a rare history from the smugglers' perspective.
Marijuana industry --- Drug traffic --- Smugglers --- History.
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Marijuana --- Drug legalization --- Ganja --- Marihuana --- Weed (Marijuana) --- Cannabis --- Law and legislation
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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.
Marijuana --- Marijuana industry --- Therapeutic use --- Law and legislation --- alliance for medical marijuana. --- american politics. --- business. --- california proposition 215. --- cannabis culture. --- cannabis industry. --- clinical studies. --- criminology. --- dea. --- drug agents. --- drug enforcement administration. --- drug use. --- drugs. --- government and governing. --- illness. --- law enforcement raids. --- marijuana as treatment. --- marijuana garden. --- marijuana in america. --- marijuana. --- medical benefits of cannabis. --- medical marijuana law. --- medical marijuana. --- medicine. --- political debate. --- political. --- politics. --- pot liberalization. --- pot. --- sociology. --- weed.
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Drugged driving --- Marijuana abuse --- Transportation --- Government policy --- Safety measures.
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Marijuana --- Youth --- Drug abuse --- Research --- Drug use --- Prevention. --- United States.
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Marijuana --- Drug legalization --- Drug control --- Government policy --- United States.
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Drug traffic --- Cannabis --- Marijuana industry --- Organized crime --- Drug control --- Drogues --- Cannabis --- Marijuana --- Crime organis --- Lutte antidrogue --- Trafic --- Industrie
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Marijuana industry --- Herb industry --- Cannabis industry --- Cannabis growing --- Belgium --- Juridical aspects --- Cannabis --- Kweken --- Botanical drug industry
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