By Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee lines the dramatic social background of marijuana from its origins to its emergence within the Nineteen Sixties as a defining strength in a tradition struggle that hasn't ever ceased. Lee describes how the illicit marijuana way of life overcame govt competition and morphed right into a dynamic, multibillion-dollar undefined.
In 1996, California citizens licensed Proposition 215, legalizing marijuana for medicinal reasons. related legislation have in additional than a dozen different states, yet now not with out hostile responses from federal, nation, and native legislation enforcement. Lee, an award-winning investigative journalist, attracts awareness to underreported clinical breakthroughs which are reshaping the healing panorama. through mining the plant’s wealthy pharmacopoeia, scientific researchers have constructed promising remedies for melanoma, middle sickness, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, power discomfort, and plenty of different stipulations which are past the succeed in of traditional treatments.
Colorful, illuminating, and now and then irreverent, this can be a interesting learn for leisure clients and sufferers, scholars and medical professionals, musicians and accountants, child Boomers and their little ones, and somebody who has ever puzzled in regards to the mystery lifetime of this ubiquitous herb.
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