Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific
- ISBN-10
- 1439102619
- ISBN-13
- 9781439102619
- Series
- Smoke Signals
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-08-13
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Martin A. Lee
Description
The best-selling co-author of Acid Dream traces the dramatic social history of marijuana from its origins and its emergence in the 1960s culture wars through the 1996 legalization of medicinal marijuana in California, profiling the multibillion-dollar marijuana industry and how it is reshaping health care. 35,000 first printing.
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