Grass Roots
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
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Narrado por:
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Greg Baglia
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Emily Dufton
Sobre este áudio
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 40 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.
©2017 Emily Dufton (P)2017 Hachette AudioResumo da Crítica
"A lively, perceptive refresher course on the politics of pot." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Dufton makes a potent argument that, more than any other legal or illegal substance, marijuana is a drug that makes people care." (Publishers Weekly)
"Dufton's work expertly shows the cyclical nature of our society's relationship with marijuana, as well as the deeply entrenched racial and class divides that have added to the illicit nature of the complex drug." (The Riveter)