By Susan C. Boyd,Connie Carter
Since the overdue Nineteen Nineties, marijuana develop operations were pointed out by means of media and others as a brand new and hazardous criminality of “epidemic” proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their research of fifteen years of newspaper insurance to teach how consensus in regards to the harmful humans and practices linked to marijuana cultivation used to be created and disseminated by way of various spokespeople together with police, RCMP, and the media in Canada. The authors specialise in the context of media experiences in British Columbia to teach how claims approximately marijuana cultivation have intensified the conception that this task poses “significant” risks to public protection and therefore is an acceptable goal for Canada’s battle on drugs.
Boyd and Carter conscientiously exhibit how the media draw at the similar spokespeople to inform an analogous tale time and again, and the way a restricted variety of messages has ended in an increasing anti-drug crusade that makes use of not just police, yet BC Hydro and native municipalities to crack down on drug construction. Going past the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how felony, political, and civil tasks that experience emerged from the media narrative have troubling effects for a shrinking Canadian civil society.
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