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| Author | : Susan C. Boyd |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1442612142 |
Since the late 1990s, marijuana grow operations have been identified by media and others as a new and dangerous criminal activity of epidemic proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their analysis of fifteen years of newspaper coverage to show how consensus about the dangerous people and practices associated with marijuana cultivation was created and disseminated by numerous spokespeople including police, RCMP, and the media in Canada. The authors focus on the context of media reports in Canada to show how claims about marijuana cultivation have intensified the perception that this activity poses significant dangers to public safety and thus is an appropriate target for Canada's war on drugs. Boyd and Carter carefully show how the media draw on the same spokespeople to tell the same story again and again, and how a limited number of messages has led to an expanding anti-drug campaign that uses not only police, but BC Hydro and local municipalities to crack down on drug production. Going beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged from the media narrative have troubling consequences for a shrinking Canadian civil society.
| Author | : Institute of Medicine |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2000-12-30 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0309065313 |
Some people suffer from chronic, debilitating disorders for which no conventional treatment brings relief. Can marijuana ease their symptoms? Would it be breaking the law to turn to marijuana as a medication? There are few sources of objective, scientifically sound advice for people in this situation. Most books about marijuana and medicine attempt to promote the views of advocates or opponents. To fill the gap between these extremes, authors Alison Mack and Janet Joy have extracted critical findings from a recent Institute of Medicine study on this important issue, interpreting them for a general audience. Marijuana As Medicine? provides patientsâ€"as well as the people who care for themâ€"with a foundation for making decisions about their own health care. This empowering volume examines several key points, including: Whether marijuana can relieve a variety of symptoms, including pain, muscle spasticity, nausea, and appetite loss. The dangers of smoking marijuana, as well as the effects of its active chemical components on the immune system and on psychological health. The potential use of marijuana-based medications on symptoms of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and several other specific disorders, in comparison with existing treatments. Marijuana As Medicine? introduces readers to the active compounds in marijuana. These include the principal ingredient in Marinol, a legal medication. The authors also discuss the prospects for developing other drugs derived from marijuana's active ingredients. In addition to providing an up-to-date review of the science behind the medical marijuana debate, Mack and Joy also answer common questions about the legal status of marijuana, explaining the conflict between state and federal law regarding its medical use. Intended primarily as an aid to patients and caregivers, this book objectively presents critical information so that it can be used to make responsible health care decisions. Marijuana As Medicine? will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, health care providers, patient counselors, medical faculty and studentsâ€"in short, anyone who wants to learn more about this important issue.
| Author | : TROG |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-05-01 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1440351740 |
The Best Stoner Coloring Book You'll Find Puff, puff, and pass it on! You've finally found the coloring pages to soothe (or stoke) your inner (or outer) freak. Whether you are a casual fan of stoner culture or a founding member, this is the coloring book for you. Born from the mind of and attentively drawn by the wildly popular internationally recognized cannabis-friendly artist known as TROG, this super cool, irreverent coloring book is filled with insanely psychedelic pages to color. • 60 brand new pieces of hand-drawn coloring book pages for colored pencils, markers, crayons, watercolors and more. • Single-sided, thick, high-quality paper • Features all the insane images, characters and themes TROG is known for This coloring book is for the wacked, the weird, and the weed-loving Adults only. "TROG's a great artist. He can stay in between the lines. This coloring book gets an A+ and a smiley face." --Tommy Chong "Smelly, sticky and Stoned as F*ck, this art takes me back to the day when we were young, wild and fearless. Surfing and Skating our dayz away and nights were filled with big fast cars and smoking hot women... Enjoy it; I did." --Farmer Tom Lauerman (#TodayWeFarm)
| Author | : Susan C. Boyd |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2014-02-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1442696591 |
Since the late 1990s, marijuana grow operations have been identified by media and others as a new and dangerous criminal activity of “epidemic” proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their analysis of fifteen years of newspaper coverage to show how consensus about the dangerous people and practices associated with marijuana cultivation was created and disseminated by numerous spokespeople including police, RCMP, and the media in Canada. The authors focus on the context of media reports in Canada to show how claims about marijuana cultivation have intensified the perception that this activity poses “significant” dangers to public safety and thus is an appropriate target for Canada’s war on drugs. Boyd and Carter carefully show how the media draw on the same spokespeople to tell the same story again and again, and how a limited number of messages has led to an expanding anti-drug campaign that uses not only police, but BC Hydro and local municipalities to crack down on drug production. Going beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged from the media narrative have troubling consequences for a shrinking Canadian civil society.
| Author | : Aaron Patton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781593980207 |
This guide provides weed identification and control information that turfgrass professionals can use to develop effective weed control programs for golf courses, athletic fields, sod farms, lawns, and other turfgrass systems. The recommendations apply to the majority of the United States, with input from experts in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Formerly Purdue Extension publication AY-336.
| Author | : Brian "Box" Brown |
| Publisher | : First Second |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1250254531 |
From the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, cannabis legislation in America and racism have been inextricably linked. In this searing nonfiction graphic novel, Box Brown sets his sights on this timely topic. Mexico, 1519 CE. During the Spanish conquests Cortés introduced hemp farming as part of his violent colonial campaign. In secret, locals began cultivating the plant for consumption. It eventually made its way to the United States through the immigrant labor force where it was shared with black laborers. It doesn't take long for American lawmakers to decry cannabis as the vice of "inferior races." Enter an era of propaganda designed to feed a moral panic about the dangers of a plant that had been used by humanity for thousands of years. Cannabis was given a schedule I classification, which it shared with drugs like heroin. This opened the door for a so-called “war on drugs” that disproportionately targeted young black men, leaving hundreds of thousands in prison, many for minor infractions. With its roots in "reefer madness" and misleading studies into the effects of cannabis, America’s complicated and racialized relationship with marijuana continues to this day. In Cannabis, Box Brown delves deep into this troubling history and offers a rich, entertaining, and thoroughly researched graphic essay on the legacy of cannabis legislation in America.
| Author | : Chronic Crafter |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2015-12-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781519495846 |
Wanna get high on coloring? Grab a copy of Color Me Cannabis, the marijuana themed coloring book, some pencil crayons and some munchies. When it's all done you are left with 20 awesome pictures to put on your fridge, wall, or cork board. Everyone will be impressed with your coloring abilities now that you're an "adult" and what's most important you had a blast coloring and got those creative juices flowing. Thanks for looking at Color Me Cannabis, you can follow me on Facebook, Pinterest or Instagram @ChronicCrafter. I also have a blog at www.chroniccrafter.com and make videos on Youtube!
| Author | : Camille Sweeney |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2013-01-29 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 0452298172 |
How does anyone get to the top of their field? We all know it takes hard work, dedication, and the occasional dose of luck, but what separates a wannabe from a winner? The Art of Doing brings together an incredible cross-section of individuals who are the at the top of their respective fields, from actor Alec Baldwin to New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz, to and asks them each one question: how do you succeed at what you do? The advice that they share is illuminating, and occasionally surprising, providing their top ten strategies on how to achieve greatness in a variety of ways. From the practical ("How to Open a Restaurant and Stay in Business," by restaurateur David Chang) to the zany ("How to Live Life on the High Wire," by infamous World Trade Center tightrope walker Philippe Petit), each interview is a testament to the knowledge and experiences that these risk-taking, barrier-breaking individuals have used to achieve their own success. With its diverse perspectives and variety of opinions about how to be the best in any field, this book will shape readers' views of success and inspire them to carve out their own niche.
| Author | : Alex Berenson |
| Publisher | : Free Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2020-02-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1982103671 |
In “a brilliant antidote to all the…false narratives about pot” (American Thinker), an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug—facts the media have ignored as the United States rushes to legalize cannabis. Recreational marijuana is now legal in nine states. Advocates argue cannabis can help everyone from veterans to cancer sufferers. But legalization has been built on myths—that marijuana arrests fill prisons; that most doctors want to use cannabis as medicine; that it can somehow stem the opiate epidemic; that it is beneficial for mental health. In this meticulously reported book, Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, explodes those myths, explaining that almost no one is in prison for marijuana; a tiny fraction of doctors write most authorizations for medical marijuana, mostly for people who have already used; and marijuana use is linked to opiate and cocaine use. Most of all, THC—the chemical in marijuana responsible for the drug’s high—can cause psychotic episodes. “Alex Berenson has a reporter’s tenacity, a novelist’s imagination, and an outsider’s knack for asking intemperate questions” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker), as he ranges from the London institute that is home to the scientists who helped prove the cannabis-psychosis link to the Colorado prison where a man now serves a thirty-year sentence after eating a THC-laced candy bar and killing his wife. He sticks to the facts, and they are devastating. With the US already gripped by one drug epidemic, Tell Your Children is a “well-written treatise” (Publishers Weekly) that “takes a sledgehammer to the promised benefits of marijuana legalization, and cannabis enthusiasts are not going to like it one bit” (Mother Jones).
| Author | : Catherine Lord |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2010-07-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0292788282 |
"No eyebrows. No eyelashes. When it rains the water will run straight down into my eyes," Catherine Lord wrote before her hair fell out during chemotherapy. Propelled into an involuntary performance piece occasioned by the diagnosis of breast cancer, Lord adopted the online persona of Her Baldness—an irascible, witty, polemical presence who speaks candidly about shame and fear to her listserv audience. While Lord suffers from unwanted isolation and loss of control as her treatment progresses, Her Baldness talks back to the society that stigmatizes bald women, not to mention middle-aged lesbians with a life-threatening disease. In this irreverent and moving memoir, Lord draws on the e-mail correspondence of Her Baldness to offer an unconventional look at life with breast cancer and the societal space occupied by the seriously ill. She photographs herself and the rooms in which she negotiates her disease. She details the clash of personalities in support groups, her ambivalence about Western medicine, her struggles to maintain her relationship with her partner, and her bemusement when she is mistaken for a "sir." She uses these experiences—common to the one-in-eight women who will be diagnosed at some point with breast cancer—to illuminate larger issues of gender signifiers, sexuality, and the construction of community.
