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"Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction: Grass is Not Greener" -- "1. From Medicine to Menace: Drug Cannabis in the Southwest and Beyond,1851–1935" -- "2. Prohibition Is for the Birds Nature, Race, and the Marihuana Tax Act" -- "3. Workers' Weed: Cannabis and Labor in the Rural West" -- "4. Seeding the Nation: Cannabis and the Counterculture, 1960–1980" -- "5. Black Market Blues: Capitalized Cannabis and the Environment, 1980–1996" -- "6. Legalizing It: Medical Cannabis and the Push for a Sustainable Future" -- "Conclusion: Our Best Root Forward" -- "Notes" -- "Select Books on Cannabis

This paper presents results of a telephone survey of 400 Western Australians regarding attitudes to laws relating to possession of cannabis for personal use. Over a third of respondents believed cannabis should be made as legal as alcohol. Support for decriminalization increased from 64.0% to 71.5% when possible penalties associated with decriminalization were described. When penalties were described, more women than men favored decriminalization but age, political affiliation, and city or country residency no longer predicted attitudes to decriminalization. Almost two-thirds of respondents believed that many people used cannabis without experiencing serious problems and that the court system was overburdened by minor cannabis offenses. Half the sample believed it would not be a bad thing for the community if people were legally able to grow cannabis for their personal use. Results suggest there is considerable community support for removing criminal penalties for simple cannabis offenses.

'Line in the Sand' details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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This article presents a case study of commercial cannabis in the United States. Drawing on 56 interviews with cannabis stakeholders collected between 2018–2020, I examine how different governmentalities of surveillance became distorted by the contradiction between state and federal cannabis laws. As in other regulated markets, these governmentalities informed state-sponsored surveillance initiatives to stop, contain, or support certain forms of deviance by commercial cannabis businesses. Due to fragmented governance, the efficacy of these initiatives depended in part upon the actions of the regulated cannabis industry. Commercial cannabis businesses looked to how surveillance was configured to develop strategies that could help them overcome challenges stemming from their semi-legality. These strategies included incorporating practices that were not required by law, partnering with the state in surveillance efforts, and engaging in activities to combat the black market. I argue that the embedded relationship between governmentalities, surveillance initiatives, and commercial cannabis activities transformed these strategies into mechanisms through which structure emerged in this nascent market. This paper introduces a set of surveillance categories, proposes new directions for research on social control and markets, and offers a novel study of commercial cannabis that can help to explain the trajectory of this market.

Contemporary global realities in the West have demonstrated the inestimable value of marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes in addition to huge economic benefits. Consequently, a lot of European countries and the United States have accommodated this reality by methodically decriminalising or legalising the consumption of marijuana but rather regulated and institutionalised its production and distribution. The positive outcomes from the aforesaid arrangement cannot be over emphasised. Within the context of the above, Nigeria noted for one of the finest brands of marijuana must key into this vast economic and psycho-medical opportunities by modifying her laws and policies to harness these potentials as in the Western world. It is on this premise that this study affirms the economic benefits of marijuana or cannabis sativa (often known in our local slogan as "India hemp, igbo, we-we, ganja, weed, etc"). It is the view of this work that if Marijuana is methodically converted and cooperatively organised along other cash crops as export commodities, massive foreign exchange will be earned as part of the government's drive for a diversified economy. The study relied extensively on qualitative research design as its methodological component. Secondary sources of data were used in collection of relevant data or materials for the study, gleaned from extant literatures in the study area. In order to find the equilibrium point between decriminalisation of the management of marijuana and its political economic implications in Nigeria, while offering strategic solutions or policy recommendations.