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Weed the People

Disciplines:
sociology
journalism
politics/drug policy

Summary

Bruce Barcott's 2015 journalistic account of the marijuana legalization movement in America, following the political and cultural battles around cannabis policy.

Core Contribution

Provides one of the more comprehensive narrative accounts of marijuana legalization's political arc — the ballot initiatives, the business interests, the patient advocates, and the law enforcement opposition.

Historical Influences

Bruce Barcott

Intellectual Lineage

American Drug Policy JournalismPolitical Reporting Tradition

Contemporaries & Peers

Drug War journalism broadly

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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