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Grass roots : a history of cannabis in the American West by Johnson, Nick (Nicholas Michael), 1989- author is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 todays 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 overlookedenvironmental degradation. Grass Roots argues that the most environmentally negligent farming practicessuch as indoor growingwere 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 sustain

Who reads Grass roots : a history of cannabis in the American West?

Author

Johnson, Nick (Nicholas Michael), 1989- author

Publisher

Corvallis: Oregon State University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870719080

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences

Rating

4.6 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14