Grass roots : the rise and fall and rise of marijuana in America / Emily Dufton.

Author: Dufton, Emily, author.

Imprint:New York, NY : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, 2017.

Description311 pages ; 24 cm

Note:A higher calling -- "Forward, all smokers!" -- It's NORML to smoke pot -- Marijuana : a signal of misunderstanding -- "You won't have to be paranoid anymore!" -- "I'm like a bottle maker during prohibition" -- Atlanta, 1976 -- The downfall of Peter Bourne -- The coming parent revolution -- "The most potent force there is" -- The truth behind Just say no -- Crack update -- "The Florence Nightingale of medical marijuana" -- A social justice issue -- Lessons learned.

Note: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.

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