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High Society

A sweeping history of cannabis from ancient spiritual rituals to Nixon's War on Drugs, exposing how a plant became a weapon of social control.

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What This Book Covers

  1. Prologue
  2. Chapter One - The First Blaze
  3. Chapter Two - Shiva and Smoke
  4. Chapter Three - The High Priests of History
  5. Chapter Four - Empires and Exports
  6. Chapter Five - Weed Gets to Work
  7. Chapter Six - Reefer and Resistance
  8. Chapter Seven - Panic at the Pot Plant
  9. Chapter Eight - War on Some People
  10. Chapter Nine - The Stoner Era
  11. Chapter Ten - Medical Miracles and Mirages
  12. Chapter Eleven - Legalize It, But Who Gets Paid?
  13. Chapter Twelve - The Modern Patchwork
  14. Chapter Thirteen - Beyond the Haze
  15. Chapter Fourteen - Smoke Signals

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU KNOW THAT smell. You’re walking across a parking lot, maybe leaving a Target or hitting up a Taco Bell, and it drifts past you. That unmistakable, skunky, slightly sweet cloud of something. Maybe it’s a car full of dudes hotboxing in broad daylight. Maybe it’s some dude in joggers casually sparking up behind the dumpster like it’s 1977. Either way, you know what it is. Weed. It’s everywhere now. In your neighborhood. In your friend’s tote bag. In your state legislature. In gummy form, vape form, and luxury-brand form. On your TV. In your memes. On your uncle’s coffee table even though he voted for Reagan twice. Weed is having a moment, or maybe it always was. But weed has never...

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