{"product_id":"9781618931405","title":"Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThe legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as \u003cem\u003eCannabis sativa\u003c\/em\u003e, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug. \u003cp\u003eNow the tide has shifted: In 1996 California passed the nation's first medical marijuana law, which allowed patients to grow it and use it with a doctor's permission. By 2010, twenty states and the District of Columbia had adopted medical pot laws. In 2012 Colorado and Washington state passed ballot measures legalizing marijuana for adults age 21 and older.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe magnitude of the change in America's relationship to marijuana can't be measured in only economic or social terms: There are deeper shifts going on here - cultural realignments, social adjustments, and financial adjustments. The place of marijuana in our lives is being rethought, reconsidered, and recalibrated. Four decades after Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs, that long campaign has reached a point of exhaustion and failure. The era of its winding down as arrived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeed the People\u003c\/i\u003e will take readers a half-step into the future. The issues surrounding the legalization of pot vary from the trivial to the profound. There are new questions of social etiquette: Is one expected to offer a neighborly toke? If so, how? Is it cool to bring cannabis to a Super Bowl party? Yea or nay on the zoning permit for a marijuana shop two doors down from the Safeway? Plus, there are the inevitable conversations between parents and children over exactly what this adult experiment with marijuana means for them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Time Home Entertainment Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051418206448,"sku":"9781618931405","price":20.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618931405_p0.jpg?v=1763855631","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618931405","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}