Description
Book SynopsisGoing beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged from the media narrative have troubling consequences for a shrinking Canadian civil society.
Trade Review'A first-rate book about marijuana, grow operations, and the media in Canada... The book is both rigorous and sound, and will be of use to academics and graduate students doing work in drug policy, media studies, and sociology... Highly recommended.' -- R.Koop Choice vol 52:03:2014
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Marijuana Grow Ops: Setting the Scene Chapter One: A Brief Socio-History of Drug Scares, Racialization, Nation Building, and Policy Chapter Two: Problematizing Marijuana Grow Ops: Mayerthorpe and Beyond Chapter Three: Marijuana Grow Ops and Organized Crime Chapter Four: Racialization of Marijuana Grow Ops Chapter Five: Civil Responses to Marijuana Grow Ops Chapter Six: Using Children to Promote Increased Regulation: The Representation and Regulation of Children and Parents Found at Grow Ops Chapter Seven: Alternative Perspectives Appendix Newspaper References References Notes
