Super-Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana - Hardcover

Rendon, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1604692952 ISBN 13: 9781604692952

Verlag: Timber Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Marijuana has been illegal in the United States since 1937. Yet, thanks in large part to a loosely connected underground world of breeders, dealers, and smokers, there are currently more than 2000 varieties available. And since 1996, when California first passed legislation allowing for legalized medical marijuana, the underground has slowly surfaced, pushing what was once a decentralized, lawless world closer to the corporate world of business, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals.

Super-Charged gets up close and personal with the people who have transformed this controversial drug. With personalities and backgrounds as diverse as the plant itself, the growers include a former Silicon Valley software entrepreneur; third-generation Humboldt, California, growers; a publicly traded pharmaceutical company; and the famous marijuana personality Jorge Cervantes. Jim Rendon takes readers behind the scenes and into the homes and grow operations of the committed, quality-obsessed practitioners in the international underground industry responsible for creating today's super-charged cannabis.

Ironically, these pioneers who built this illegal industry may one day find themselves out of business in the face of the drug's growing mainstream acceptance. Just how this could come about is part of the incredible story.

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Jim Rendon is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Men's Journal, and Wired.

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• Verlag: Timber Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604692952
• ISBN 13: 9781604692952
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 255
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