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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boyd, Susan C., 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Subjects:
2000-2099
Marijuana > Government policy > Canada > History > 21st century.
Marijuana > Law and legislation > Canada.
Drug control > Canada > 21st century > History.
Marijuana > Politique gouvernementale > Canada > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Lutte antidrogue > Canada > 21e siècle > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Drug control
Marijuana > Government policy
Marijuana > Law and legislation
Canada
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A brief socio-history of drug scares, racialization, nation building, and policy
  • Problematizing marijuana grow ops : Mayerthorpe and beyond
  • Marijuana grow ops and organized crime
  • Racialization of marijuana grow ops
  • Civil responses to marijuana grow ops
  • Using children to promote increased regulation : the representation and regulation of children and parents found at grow ops
  • Alternative perspectives.

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