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Killer weed : marijuana grow ops, media, and justice /

Since the late 1990s, marijuana grow operations have been identified by media and others as a new and dangerous criminal activity of "epidemic" proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their analysis of fifteen years of newspaper coverage to show how consensus abo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyd, Susan C., 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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