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Title: GRASS ROOTS
A HISTORY OF CANNABIS IN THE AMERICAN WEST
By: Nick Johnson
Format: Paperback

List price: £19.95


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ISBN 10: 0870719084
ISBN 13: 9780870719080
Publisher: OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
Pub. date: 15 October, 2017
Pages: 256
Description: To understand how the legal cannabis industry might become more environmentally sustainable, Grass Roots looks at the history of marijuana growing in the American West. It uses the history of cannabis as a crop to make sense of its regulation in the present, highlighting current efforts to make the marijuana industry more sustainable.
Synopsis: 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. Over the past eighty years, federal marijuana prohibition has had a multitude of consequences, but one of the most important is also one of the most overlooked-environmental degradation. Grass Roots 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.Grass Roots uses the history of cannabis as a crop to make sense of its regulation in the present, highlighting current efforts to make the marijuana industry more sustainable. In exploring the agricultural history of cannabis, There are many social and political histories of cannabis, but in considering cannabis as a plant rather than as a drug, Grass Roots offers the only agriculturally focused history to date.
Publication: US
Imprint: Oregon State University
Returns: Returnable
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