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211 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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"Hysteria surrounded marijuana as a percieved gateway drug from the 1930s to the 1950s and beyond. Comics by Superman's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and works by Frank Frazetta, Jerry Robinson, Jack Kirby, and many more, reveal the social reaction to this era of "reefer madness." Like the antidrug propaganda film, these stories range from comically misinformed to soberly concerned about the influence of "Satan's cigarettes" on the youth...
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311 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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A chronicle of marijuana's journey toward and away from legalization examines how grassroots activists from the 1970s nearly secured its decriminalization before conservative parents and the Reagan administration transformed cannabis into a focus for the war on drugs.
"In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued victories seem certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago, only to...
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