Pot for profit : cannabis legalization, racial capitalism, and the expansion of the carceral state / Joseph Mello.
2024
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Author
Mello, Joseph, author.
Title
Pot for profit : cannabis legalization, racial capitalism, and the expansion of the carceral state / Joseph Mello.
Imprint
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]
Description
1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) : illustrations.
Series
Cultural lives of law.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : the cultural roots of cannabis reform
Dispatches from the cannabis closet : cannabis prohibition, legal culture, and legal consciousness
From tie dye to suit and tie : the corporatization of cannabis
Creating docile bodies : legal cannabis and the carceral state
Sustaining a movement : mobilizing for cannabis reform after legalization
Conclusion : cannabis and the American racial imagination.
Dispatches from the cannabis closet : cannabis prohibition, legal culture, and legal consciousness
From tie dye to suit and tie : the corporatization of cannabis
Creating docile bodies : legal cannabis and the carceral state
Sustaining a movement : mobilizing for cannabis reform after legalization
Conclusion : cannabis and the American racial imagination.
Summary
"The United States has experienced a dramatic shift in attitudes towards marijuana use from the 1970s, when only 12% of Americans said that they thought that marijuana should be legal, to today. What once had been a counterculture drug supplied for the black market by socially marginal figures like drug smugglers and hippies has become a big business, dominated by a few large corporations. Pot for Profit, traces the cultural, historical, political, and legal roots of these changing attitudes towards marijuana. The book will also showcase interviews with dispensary owners, bud tenders, and other industry employees about their experience working in the legal marijuana industry, and marijuana reform activists working towards legalization. Mello argues that embracing the profit potential of this drug has been key to the success of marijuana reform, and that this approach has problematic economic and racial implications. The story of marijuana reform shows that neoliberalism may not be an absolute barrier to social change, but it does determine the terrain on which these debates must occur. When activists capitulate to these pressures, they may make some gains, but those gains come with strings attached. This only serves to reinforce the totalizing power of the neoliberal ethos on American life. The book concludes by meditating on what, if anything, can be done to move the cannabis legalization movement back onto a more progressive track"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2024).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Mello, Joseph. Pot for profit. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024
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Access provided by Berkeley Law Library
Language
English
ISBN
9781503639225 electronic book
1503639223 electronic book
9781503612280 hardcover
9781503639218 paperback
1503639223 electronic book
9781503612280 hardcover
9781503639218 paperback
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