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1 online resource (195 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
Summary |
"From the leading authority on marijuana--a man who has served as White House advisor on drugs to three different administrations and who NBC News once called "the prodigy of drug politics"--comes the remarkable and shocking exposé about how 21st century pot, today's new and highly potent form of the drug, is on the rise, spreading rapidly across America by an industry intent on putting rising profits over public health. Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know examines the inside story behind the headlines, containing accounts from Sabet's time in the Obama administration to stunning revelations from whistleblowers speaking out for the first time. What it finds is how the marijuana industry is running rampant without proper oversight, leaving Americans' health seriously at risk. Included are interviews with industry insiders who reveal the hidden dangers of a product they had once worshipped. Also contained in these pages are insights from a major underground-market dealer who admits that legalization is hastening the growth of the illicit drug trade. And more to the heart of the issue are the tragic stories of those who have suffered and died as a result of marijuana use, and in many cases, as a result of its mischaracterization. Readers will learn how power brokers worked behind the scenes to market marijuana as a miracle plant in order to help it gain widespread acceptance and to set the stage for the lucrative expansion of recreational pot. The author of this compelling first-person narrative leading the national fight against the legalization of cannabis through his nonprofit, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (aka SAM) is Kevin Sabet. As a policy advisor to everyone from county health commissioners to Pope Francis, and a frequent public speaker on television, radio and through other media outlets, his analysis is consistently relied upon by those who recognize what's at stake as marijuana lobbyists downplay the risks of massive commercialization. A book several years in the making, filled with vivid characters and informed by hundreds of interviews and scores of confidential documents, Sabet's Smokescreen lays bare the unvarnished truth about marijuana in America"--Publisher description. |
Contents |
Prologue: Exposed -- Part One: The Green Rush. Chapter One: Taking on Goliath -- Chapter Two: An Unexpected Ally -- Chapter Three: Forces Behind the Revolution -- Chapter Four: Facts Matter, Money Talks -- Chapter Five: A Mother's Job -- Chapter Six: Superman and Me -- Part Two: Becoming A Full-Fledged Movement -- Chapter Seven: What's Been Unleashed. Chapter Eight: The Marijuana Underground -- Chapter Nine: Perpetuating Social Injustice -- Chapter Ten: A Red Herring -- Chapter Eleven: Inconvenient Truths -- Chapter Twelve: Training for the Olympics -- Chapter Thirteen: The Whistleblowers -- Part Three: Addressing the Consequences. Chapter Fourteen: Public Health Crisis -- Chapter Fifteen: An Intolerable Habit -- Chapter Sixteen: Breaking from Reality -- Chapter Seventeen: No Stopping for COVID -- Chapter Eighteen: Waging A Federal Fight -- Chapter Nineteen: What More Is in Pandora's Box? -- Epilogue -- Appendix: SAM Lessons Learned from State Legalization Impact Report. |
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Concurrent user level: 1 user |
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Marijuana abuse -- United States.
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Marijuana abuse. |
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United States. |
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Marijuana -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Marijuana -- Law and legislation. |
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Cannabis -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Cannabis -- Law and legislation. |
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Cannabis. |
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Marijuana industry -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Marijuana industry. |
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Drug legalization -- United States.
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Drug legalization. |
Added Author |
Kennedy, Patrick J.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Sabet, Kevin A. Smokescreen New York : Forefront Books,c2021 |
ISBN |
1948677881 |
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9781948677882 (electronic book) |
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