Notes

INTRODUCTION

1. “High Times: From Joints to a Lifestyle Movement: The Rise of the Cannabis Economy,” J. Walter Thompson Intelligence, 2018, 8.

chapter 1

1. Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin, Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013), 356.

2. Lucas Laursen, “Botany: The Cultivation of Weed,” Nature, September 23, 2015, 54.

3. Clarke and Merlin, Cannabis, 366.

4. Richard Evans Schultes, William M. Klein, Timothy Plowman, and Tom E. Lockwood, “Cannabis: An Example of Taxonomic Neglect,” Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University 23, no. 9 (February 28, 1974): 338.

5. Jacob L. Erkelens and Arno Hazekamp, “That Which We Call Indica, by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet,” Cannabinoids 2014, 10.

6. Schultes, Klein, Plowman, and Lockwood, “Cannabis,” 358.

7. Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin, “Cannabis Taxonomy: The ‘Sativa’ vs. ‘Indica’ Debate,” HerbalGram, 2016, 45.

8. Ernest Small and Arthur Cronquist, “A Practical and Natural Taxonomy for Cannabis,” Taxon 25, no. 4 (August 1976): 406.

9. “McPartland’s Correct(ed) Vernacular Nomenclature,” January 4, 2015, O’Shaughnessy’s Online.

10. Erkelens and Hazekamp, “That Which We Call Indica,” 12.

11. John McPartland, “Cannabinoids Involved in Language Acquisition,” O’Shaughnessy’s, Summer 2009, 17.

12. Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann, Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), 10.

13. Clarke and Merlin, Cannabis, 212.

14. Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden, Speculations on the Origin of Human Intelligence (New York: Penguin Books, 1977), 191.

15. Schultes, Klein, Plowman, Lockwood, “Cannabis,” 337–38.

16. Clarke and Merlin, Cannabis, 51.

17. Barney Warf, “High Points: An Historical Geography of Cannabis,” Geographical Review 104, no. 4 (2014).

18. Ethan Russo, “Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency (CECD): Can This Concept Explain Therapeutic Benefits of Cannabis in Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Other Treatment-Resistant Conditions?” Neuro Endocrinology Letters, 2008, 199.

19. Pal Pacher, Sandor Batkai, and George Kunos, “The Endocannabinoid System as an Emerging Target of Pharmacotheraphy,” Pharmacological Reviews 58, no. 3 (2006): 398.

20. Juan Camilo Maldonado Tovar, “Meet the ‘Father of Cannabis,’ the Man Who Discovered Why Weed Makes You High,” Vice.com, February 19, 2016, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvxde4/raphael-mechulam-father-cannabis-discover-thc.

21. “The World’s Most Spoken Language Is . . . Terpene,” Netherlands Institute of Ecology, 2017, https://nioo.knaw.nl/en/press/worlds-most-spoken-language-isterpene.

22. Ethan B. Russo, “Taming THC: Potential Cannabis Synergy and Phytocannabinoid-Terpenoid Entourage Effects,” British Journal of Pharmacology, August 2011, 1344–64.

23. Pliny, Natural History, Books XXIV–XXVII. Vol. 7 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), 164.

24. Russo, “Taming THC,” 2011.

25. David P. West, “Hemp and Marijuana: Myths & Realities,” North American Industrial Hemp Council, 1998, 3, https://www.votehemp.com/PDF/myths_facts.pdf 3.

26. Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 34.

27. Ernest Small and David Marcus, “Hemp: A New Crop with New Uses for North America,” in Trends in New Crops and New Uses (Alexandria, VA: ASHA Press, 2002), 284.

28. Eli McVey, “Chart: U.S. Hemp Production Soars in 2017,” Marijuana Business Daily, March 26, 2018, https://mjbizdaily.com/chart-us-hemp-production-soars-2017/.

29. Morgan Gstalter, “McConnell Bill Would Legalize Hemp as Agricultural Product,” The Hill, March 26, 2018, http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/380287-mcconnell-bill-would-legalize-hemp-as-agricultural-product.

30. Small and Marcus, “Hemp,” 294.

31. William Courtney, “Cannabis as a Unique Functional Food,” Treating Yourself 24, (2010): 54.

32. Courtney, “Cannabis as a Unique Functional Food,” 53.

chapter 2

1. Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin, Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013), 218.

2. Erich Goode, ed., Marijuana (Chicago: Atherton, 1969), ix.

3. Clark and Merlin, Cannabis, 204.

4. Mia Touw, “The Religious and Medicinal Uses of Cannabis in China, India and Tibet,” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 13, no. 1 (January–March 1981), https://www.cnsproductions.com/pdf/Touw.pdf.

5. Clarke and Merlin, Cannabis.

6. Ethan B. Russo, Hong-En Jiang, Xiao Li, Alan Sutton, et al., “Phytochemical and Genetic Analyses of Ancient Cannabis from Central Asia,” Journal of Experimental Botany 59, no. 15 (November 2008): 4171–82, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639026/.

7. Barney Warf, “High Points: An Historical Geography of Cannabis,” Geographical Review 104, no. 4 (2014), http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-387952804/high-points-an-historical-geography-of-cannabis.

8. E. L. Abel, Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years (New York: Springer Publishing, 1980), 18.

9. Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 40.

10. Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered, 40–41.

11. Touw, “The Religious and Medicinal Uses of Cannabis,” 4.

12. Tod Mikuriya, “Introduction to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report,” Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study, http://cifas.us/analyses/Mikuriya1.html.

13. Isaac Campos, Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 9.

14. Campos, Home Grown, 14.

15. Mikuriya, “Introduction to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report.”

16. Gertrude Emerson Sen, Voiceless India, revised ed. (New York: John Day Company, 1944), 196.

17. Raphael Mechoulam, Cannabinoids as Therapeutics (New York: Springer Science & Business Media, 2006), 17.

18. Daphna Hacker, “Colonialism’s Civilizing Mission: The Case of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission,” Tel Aviv University, 2001, 458, http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1161&context=taulwps.

19. “Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94,” 15, https://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/archive/74464868.

20. “Report of Indian Hemp Drugs Commission,” 16.

21. Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered, 173.

22. David L. Haberman, Journey through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 212.

23. Haberman, Journey through the Twelve Forests, 47.

24. Richard Connerney, The Upside-Down Tree: India’s Changing Culture (New York: Algora, 2009), 101–2.

25. Dean Latimer, “Hashish and Terrorism,” High Times, July 1978, 52.

26. Clark and Merlin, Cannabis, 232.

27. Abel, Marihuana, 22.

28. Campos, Home Grown, 11.

29. Clarke and Merlin, Cannabis, 234.

30. Campos, Home Grown, 13.

31. Isaac Littlebury, The History of Herodotus, 1737 (London: Kessinger Publishing, 2010), 380.

32. Warf, “High Points,” 104.

33. Clarke and Merlin, Cannabis, 206.

34. Vera Rubin (ed.), Cannabis and Culture (The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1975), 39–49.

35. Christian Rätsch, Marijuana Medicine: A World Tour of the Healing and Visionary Powers of Cannabis (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2001), 122.

36. Benjamin Kemper, “The Quest for an Ancient Culture’s Cannabis-Filled Cooking,” Atlas Obscura, May 2, 2018, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cannabis-cooking-in-georgia?utm_source=Gastro+Obscura+Weekly+E-mail&utm_campaign=2f03b5df80-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2418498528-2f03b5df80-68458689&mc_cid=2f03b5df80&mc_eid=b6753bc786.

37. George Nelson, “Georgia Eases Draconian Law on Cannabis Use,” The Guardian, January 24, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/24/georgia-eases-draconian-law-cannabis-landmark-ruling.

38. Rubin, Cannabis and Culture, 42.

39. Clarke and Merlin, Cannabis, 233.

40. Russo et al., “Phytochemical and Genetic Analyses,” 36.

41. Ethan B. Russo and Franjo Grotenhermen, The Handbook of Cannabis Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside (Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2006), 26.

42. Richard Rose, “It’s Nigh Time to Grandfather Hemp,” Hemp.com, May 31, 2018, http://www.hemp.com/2018/05/its-nigh-time-to-grandfather-hemp/.

43. Robert Deitch, Hemp: American History Revisited—The Plant with a Divided History (New York: Algora, 2003), 46.

chapter 3

1. Isaac Campos, Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 14–15.

2. Ethan B. Russo and Franjo Grotenhermen, Handbook of Cannabis Therapeutics: From Bench to Bedside (Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2006), 14.

3. Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 58.

4. Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered, 59–62.

5. Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered, 55–58.

6. Lester Grinspoon, “Opium, Not Alcohol, Is the Demon,” New York Times, October 24, 1971, 58.

7. Charles Baudelaire, “The Poem of Hashish,” Erowid.org, https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/baudelaire_charles/baudelaire_charles_poem1.shtml.

8. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (London: Chapman and Hall, 1844), 539.

9. Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1863), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10924/10924-h/10924-h.htm#ch10.

10. Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean (Calgary, Alberta: Theophania Publishing, 2011), xi; Amy Roach, “Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater,” Potent, https://potent.media/fitz-hugh-ludlow-hasheesh-eater.

11. H. H. Kane, “A Hashish-House in New York,” Harper’s 667 (November 1883): 944–49.

12. Kane, “A Hashish-House in New York.”

13. Glenn O’Brien and Gary Stimeling, “Interview: Vera Rubin,” High Times, June 1978, 33.

14. Jon Bradshaw, “The Reggae Way to ‘Salvation,’” New York Times, August 14, 1977, 183.

15. Leonard Barrett Sr., The Rastafarians (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1997), 2.

16. Stephen Davis, “Fear in Paradise,” New York Times, July 25, 1976, 153.

17. Barrett, The Rastafarians, 141.

18. Pamela Lloyd, “1974: A Century of Reefer Action in Five Years; or, Time Flies When You’re Having Fun,” High Times, 56.

19. Vera D. Rubin, Ganja in Jamaica: A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use (The Hague: Moutaon De Gruyter), 26.

20. Davidacus Holmes, “The Rasta Lifestyle, Ital Food, Ganja Farming in Jamaica, Ganja as Sacrament,” Filmed February 2015, YouTube video, Posted June 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI1tmqhOHwE.

21. Adrian Frater, “No to Edible Ganja Products—Ras Iyah V . . . Calls for Cannabis-Oriented Educational Programmes,” Jamaica Gleaner, May 31, 2017, http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20170531/no-edible-ganja-products-ras-iyah-v-calls-cannabis-oriented.

22. Jack Herer, The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy (Van Nuys, CA: Ah Ha Publishing, 1985), 160.

23. Campos, Home Grown, 206.

24. Campos, Home Grown, 3.

25. Campos, Home Grown, 204.

26. Herer, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 299.

27. Barney Warf, “High Points: An Historical Geography of Cannabis,” Geographical Review 104, no. 4 (2014).

28. Warf, “High Points.”

29. Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 1625, May 8, 1986 (ReInk Books, 2017), 121.

30. “Use of Marijuana Spreading in West, Poisonous Weed Is Being Sold Quite Freely in Pool Halls and Beer Gardens. Children Said to Buy It, Narcotic Bureau Officials Say Law Gives No Authority to Stop Traffic,” New York Times, September 16, 1934, 6.

31. Harry Jacob Anslinger, Marijuana: Assassin of Youth (New York: Crowell Publishing, 1937), https://www.redhousebooks.com/galleries/assassin.htm.

32. Ernest L. Abel, Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years (New York: Springer Publishing, 1980), 224.

33. Anslinger, Marijuana.

34. Herer, The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

35. Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered, 21.

36. Robert Deitch, Hemp: American History Revisited—the Plant with a Divided History (New York: Algora, 2003), 147.

37. “Drive on Narcotics Sped by Treasury; Campaign to Rid the Nation of Marijuana Is a Feature of Year’s Program,” New York Times, January 31, 1938, 12.

38. Joel Fort, “Pot: A Rational Approach,” Playboy, October 1969, 130.

39. Dan Baum, “Legalize It All,” Harper’s, April 2016, https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/.

40. Chris Bennett, “The Incredible, Delectable, Miracle of 19th Century Medicine: Hasheesh Candy!” Cannabis Culture, February 7, 2013, https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2013/02/07/incredible-delectable-miracle-19th-century-medicine-hasheesh-candy.

41. Dale Gieringer, “A Warning Re Dabs,” O’Shaughnessy’s Online, http://www.beyondthc.com/a-warning-re-dabs/.

chapter 4

1. Belinda Bruner, “A Recipe for Modernism and the Somatic Intellect in the Alice B. Toklas Cook Book and Gertrude Stein’s ‘Tender Buttons,’” Papers on Language & Literature 45, no. 4 (2009): 411.

2. John Geiger, Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin (New York: Disinformation Books, 2005), 106.

3. “Alice B. Toklas Reads Her Famous Recipe for Hashish Fudge,” Open Culture, January 22, 2014, http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/alice-b-toklas-talks-about-her-famous-recipe-for-hashish-fudge.html.

4. Geiger, Nothing Is True, 107.

5. Geiger, Nothing Is True, 107.

6. “Life Guide,” Life, September 29, 1961, 28.

7. Geiger, Nothing Is True, 106.

8. “Alice Toklas, 89, Is Dead in Paris,” New York Times, March 8, 1967, https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein-toklasobit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.

9. John Birdsall, “Jeremiah Tower’s Invincible Armor of Pleasure,” Eater, November 7, 2014, https://www.eater.com/2014/11/7/7166097/jeremiah-towers-invincible-armor-of-pleasure.

10. Dan Wakefield, “The Prodigal Powers of Pot: Acclaimed by Ancients, Frowned on by Fuzz, Beatified by Beats, Marijuana Remains the Most Misunderstood Drug of All Time,” Playboy, August 1962, 52.

11. Dwight Garner, “Trusting in The Sheltering Sky, Even When It Scorched,” New York Times, August 30, 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/books/31bowles.html.

12. Layla Eplett, “Go Ask Alice: The History of Toklas’ Legendary Hashish Fudge,” Scientific American, April 20, 2015, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/go-ask-alice-the-history-of-toklas-8217-legendary-hashish-fudge/.

13. Paul O’Neil, “The Only Rebellion Around, But the Shabby Beats Bungle the Job in Arguing, Sulking and Bad Poetry,” Life, November 30, 1959, 115.

14. Ira Cohen, “The Goblet of Dreams,” Playboy, April 1966, 125–28.

15. Timothy Leary, “Majoon and the Mind,” Playboy, July 1966, 16.

16. Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 202.

17. Roger Vaughan, “Mad New Scene on Sunset, Strip,” Life, August 26, 1966, 75.

18. Barry Farrell, “The Other Culture: An Explorer of the Worldwide Underground of Art Finds, Behind Its Orgiastic Happenings, Brutalities and Pot-Seed Pancakes, a Wild Utopian Dream,” Life, February 17, 1967, 87.

19. “Marijuana: Millions of Turned-On Users,” Life, July 7, 1967, 21.

20. Roger Ebert, The Great Movies IV (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 248.

21. Roger Ebert, “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas,” November 27, 1968, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-love-you-alice-b-toklas-1968.

22. “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!” Variety, December 31, 1967, http://variety.com/1967/film/reviews/i-love-you-alice-b-toklas-1200421625/.

23. Vincent Canby, “Screen: ‘I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!’” New York Times, October 8, 1968, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/10/08/76888012.pdf.

24. Geiger, Nothing Is True, 224.

25. P. J. Geerlings, “Treatment of Drug Addicts,” Maandblad voor Geestelijke Volksgezondheid 30, no. 11 (1975): 49–52, 51.

26. “Coffee Shops in Amsterdam: Why Are the Amsterdam Cannabis Cafes Allowed?” http://www.amsterdam-advisor.com/coffee-shops-in-amsterdam.html.

27. Barney Warf, “High Points: An Historical Geography of Cannabis,” Geographical Review 104, no. 4 (2014), http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-387952804/high-points-an-historical-geography-of-cannabis.

28. Reg Potterton, “Amsterdam . . . ” Playboy, March 1971, 135.

29. “Hooray! The Bulldog Turned 40 in 2015!” https://www.thebulldog.com/40-years-the-living-room-of-amsterdam/.

30. Simon Vinkenoog, “Dutch Beat,” High Times, June 1986, 53.

31. “‘Low-Risk’ Drug Sales Considered Acceptable: In Amsterdam, Cannabis Is High on Coffee Shop Menu,” Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1986, http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-02/news/mn-15818_1_coffee-shop.

32. Jenna Valleriani, “On Dutch Coffeeshops and Vancouver Dispensaries,” Lift, January 13, 2016, https://news.lift.co/dutch-coffeeshops-canada-dispensaries/.

33. T. Alan Schack, “Report from Amsterdam: The New Breed of Coffeeshops,” High Times, November 1994, 11.

34. Shane Blackman, Chilling Out: The Cultural Politics of Substance Consumption, Youth and Drug Policy (Maidenhead, England: Open University Press, 2003), 177.

35. Michael Pollan, “How Pot Has Grown,” New York Times Magazine, February 18, 1995, https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/19/magazine/how-pot-has-grown.html.

36. A. C. M. Jansen, “The Economics of Cannabis-Cultivation in Europe,” paper presented at the 2nd European Conference on Drug Trafficking and Law Enforcement. Paris, September 26 and 27, 2002, http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/jansen.economics.html.

37. Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter, Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 241.

38. Robert J. MacCoun, “What Can We Learn from the Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshop System?” Goldman School of Public Policy and UC Berkeley School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, CA, October 22, 2010, http://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/MacCoun2011_DutchCannabisCoffeeshopSystem.pdf.

39. Gavin Haines, “Why Amsterdam’s Oldest Cannabis ‘Coffeeshop’ Has Been Forced to Close,” Telegraph, January 3, 2017, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/netherlands/amsterdam/articles/amsterdams-oldest-coffeeshop-mellow-yellow-is-forced-to-close/.

40. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, “Baking Bad: A Potted History of ‘High Times,’” The Nation, October 30, 2013, https://www.thenation.com/article/baking-bad-potted-history-high-times/.

41. J. F. Burke, “Eat It!” High Times, February 1978, 47–49.

42. Mike Gianakos, “500 Issues of High Times: A History of the World’s Most Notorious Magazine,” HighTimes.com, August 30, 2017, https://hightimes.com/culture/500-issues-of-high-times-a-history-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-magazine/.

43. “That First Joint,” by Chef Ra, High Times, November 2007, 20.

44. “The High Times Interview: Action Bronson,” by Elise McDonough, High Times, July 2016, 104.

45. Daniel Victor, “High Times Is Sold to Group That Includes Son of Bob Marley,” New York Times, June 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/business/media/high-times-magazine-marijuana.html.

46. Peter Gorman, “Cambodia: Where Marijuana Is Legal,” High Times, September 1994, 49.

47. Ethan Harfenist and Bennett Murray, “The High Life,” Phnom Penh Post, May 29, 2015, https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/high-life.

48. Sudough Nimn, “Khmer Green: The Happy Herb,” High Times, September 1999, 65.

49. “Tony Bourdain—HAPPY PIZZA!!!!” YouTube video, 1:26, posted by Desiree West, March 8, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=8t2kvMIi8h0.

50. Max Winkler, “Phnom Penh’s Happy Pizza Left Me High and Dry,” Vice, September 29, 2017, https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/mgxywp/phnom-penhs-happy-pizza-left-me-high-and-dry.

51. Jen Polachek, “Getting Buzzed: Cooking with Pot,” Huffington Post, December 6, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/saveur/cooking-with-pot_b_927648.html.

52. Dania Putri and Tom Blickman, “Cannabis in Indonesia: Patterns in Consumption, Production, and Policies,” Transnational Institute, January 2016, https://www.tni.org/filtion-downloads/dpb_44_13012016_map_web.pdfes/publica.

53. Meagan Angus, “Remembering the Florence Nightingale of Medical Marijuana,” Seattle Weekly, June 29, 2016, http://www.seattleweekly.com/food/remembering-the-florence-nightingale-of-medical-marijuana/.

54. “Cops Pop ‘Brownie Mary,’” High Times, May 1981, 2.

55. Carey Goldberg, “Brownie Mary Fights to Legalize Marijuana,” New York Times, July 6, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/06/us/brownie-mary-fights-to-legalize-marijuana.html.

56. Albin Krebs and Robert M. C. G. Thomas, “Notes on People; Alice B. Toklas Goodies,” New York Times, Saturday, January 17, 1981, https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/17/nyregion/notes-on-people-alice-b-toklas-goodies.html.

57. Peter Gorman, “Interview: Brownie Mary Rathburn,” High Times, January 1993, 50.

58. Gorman, “Interview,” 51.

59. Peter Gorman, “Brownie Mary Busted: Faces Five Years for Baking Magic Brownies for PWAs,” December 1992, 23.

60. Gorman, “Interview,” 50.

61. Christopher Reed, “‘Brownie Mary’ Rathbun,” The Guardian, May 19, 1999, https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/may/20/guardianobituaries1.

62. Peter Hecht, Weed Land: Inside America’s Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit (Oakland: University of California Press, 2014), 49.

63. Carey Goldberg, “Marijuana Club Helps Those in Pain,” New York Times, February 25, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/25/us/marijuana-club-helps-those-in-pain.html.

64. Goldberg, “Marijuana Club Helps Those in Pain.”

65. Trina Robbins, “Brownie Mary: Good-Bye to a Saint,” High Times, August 1, 1999, 22.

chapter 5

1. Patricia King and Marc Peyser, “Pot Shots in the War on Drugs: ‘Doonesbury’ Mixes It Up over Marijuana,” Newsweek, October 14, 1996, 12.

2. Peter Gorman, “Feds Fly Anti-Pot Doc Balloon,” High Times, April 1997, 20.

3. Duchess of York Sarah, “The Battle for Medical Marijuana,” The Nation, January 6, 1997, http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-18994067/the-battle-for-medical-marijuana.

4. Nick Gillespie, “Prescription: Drugs,” Reason, February 1997, http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-19192456/prescription-drugs.

5. Christopher S. Wren, “Votes on Marijuana Are Stirring Debate,” New York Times, November 17, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/17/us/votes-on-marijuana-are-stirring-debate.html.

6. “Waiting to Inhale Customers Pack Marijuana Store Reopening after U.S. Raid,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), January 16, 1997, http://www.questia.com/read/1P2-33047729/waiting-to-inhale-customers-pack-marijuana-store-reopening.

7. Dr. Lester Grinspoon, “Cannabis Clubs: Public Nuisance or Therapy?” Playboy, November 1998, 44.

8. Michael Pollan, “Living with Medical Marijuana,” New York Times, July 28, 1997, https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/20/magazine/living-with-medical-marijuana.html.

9. David Samuels, “Dr. Kush,” The New Yorker, July 28, 2008, http://www.questia.com/read/1P3-1520182561/dr-kush.

10. Peter Hecht, Weed Land: Inside America’s Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit (Oakland: University of California Press, 2014), 5.

11. Hecht, Weed Land, 24.

12. “Stories of Amendment 64 Oral History Project,” Mason Tvert, interviewed by Janet Bishop (Colorado State Library), https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/bitstream/handle/10217/176472/AMNT_OralHistoryTranscript_Tverk-part3.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y.

13. “Stories of Amendment 64 Oral History Project,” Jeanna Hoch, interviewed by Janet Bishop (Colorado State Library), https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/handle/10217/176470.

14. “Stories of Amendment 64 Oral History Project,” Christian Sederberg, interviewed by Janet Bishop (Colorado State Library), https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/bitstream/handle/10217/176469/AMNT_OralHistoryTranscript_Sederberg-part2-sect2.pdf?sequence=11&isAllowed=y.

15. Sederberg interview.

16. Chandra Thomas Whitfield, “Capitalizing on Cannabis: Meet Colorado’s Black ‘Potrepreneurs,’” NBCNews.com, April 19, 2015, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/capitalizing-cannabis-meet-colorado-s-black-potrepreneurs-n344556.

17. David Bienenstock, “Cannabis Edibles That Changed the Game,” Leafly, February 22, 2018, https://www.leafly.com/news/strains-products/7-weed-edibles-that-changed-the-game.

18. Maureen Dowd, “Don’t Harsh Our Mellow, Dude,” New York Times, June 3, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html.

19. Bruce Barcott, “The Great Marijuana Experiment: A Tale of Two Drug Wars,” Rolling Stone, January 3, 2014, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-marijuana-experiment-a-tale-of-two-drug-wars-20140103.

20. Alicia Wallace, “Colorado Marijuana Sales Hit $1.5 Billion in 2017,” The Cannabist, February 9, 2018, https://www.thecannabist.co/2018/02/09/colorado-rijuana-sales-december-year-2017/98606/.

21. Elise McDonough, “California’s Cannabis Edibles Just Got Surprisingly Boring,” Vice Munchies, January 8, 2018, https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/3k55qj/californias-cannabis-edibles-just-got-surprisingly-boring.

22. Robyn Griggs Lawrence, “Is Cannabis Chocolate the Ultimate Edible?” High Times, February 13, 2017, https://hightimes.com/edibles/is-cannabis-chocolate-the-ultimate-edible/.

23. Lawrence, “Is Cannabis Chocolate the Ultimate Edible?”

24. Lawrence, “Is Cannabis Chocolate the Ultimate Edible?”

25. Robyn Griggs Lawrence, “Terpene and Turn On!” Sensi, January 29, 2018, http://www.sensimag.com/2018/01/29/165814/terpene-and-turn-on.

26. Robyn Griggs Lawrence, “Just Add Water,” Sensi, Boulder/Denver edition, February 2018, 88.

27. Lawrence, “Just Add Water,” 88.

28. Lori Jane Gliha and Serene Fang, “Colorado Cannabis Czar: We Didn’t Anticipate Problems with Pot Edibles,” Al Jazeera, January 7, 2015, http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2015/1/7/colorado-cannabisczarwedidntanticipateproblemswithpotedibles.html.

29. “Vermonters Visit to Colorado to Study Legalized Marijuana,” 10, https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2016/WorkGroups/House%20Judiciary/Reports%20and%20Resources/W~Department%20of%20Public%20Safety~Vermonters%20Visit%20to%20Colorado%20to%20Study%20Legalized%20Marijuana~3-11-2015.pdf.

30. Jack Healy, “New Scrutiny on Sweets with Ascent of Marijuana in Colorado,” New York Times, October 29, 2014, https://www.nytimescom/2014/10/30/us/new-scrutiny-on-sweets-with-ascent-of-marijuana-in-colorado.html.

31. D. G. Barrus, K. L. Capogrossi, S. C. Cates, et al., “Tasty THC: Promises and Challenges of Cannabis Edibles,” Methods Report (RTI Press), November 2016, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260817/.

32. Robert J. MacCoun and Michelle M. Mello, “Half-Baked—The Retail Promotion of Marijuana Edibles,” New England Journal of Medicine, March 12, 2015, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1416014.

33. Ricardo Oliveira, “The Promises and Challenges of Cannabis Edibles,” Lift, February 6, 2017, https://news.lift.co/promises-challenges-cannabis-edibles/.

34. Joshua Miller, “Colorado Serves Edible Marijuana with a Side of Controversy,” Boston Globe, September 16, 2016, https://www.hfcm.org/CMS/Images/Boston%20Globe.Colorado%20serves%20edible%20marijuana%20with%20a%20side%20of%20controversy.9.16.16.pdf.

35. Courtney Flatt, “Can the Cannabis Industry Deliver an Organic, Environmentally Sensitive High?” OPB.org, December 23, 2016, https://www.opb.org/news/article/organically-grown-marijuana/.

36. Jack Kaskey, “Pot Laced with Pesticides Forces States to Act as EPA Stays Away,” Bloomberg, August 2, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-02/pot-laced-with-pesticides-forces-states-to-act-as-epa-stays-away.

37. Joe Klare, “Legal Pot’s Pesticide Problem: What Can Be Done About It,” Marijuana Times, March 24, 2017, https://www.marijuanatimes.org/legal-pots-pesticide-problem-what-can-be-done-about-it/.

38. “Colorado Cannabis and the Use of Pesticides: Where Are We At?” The Cannabist, May 19, 2016, https://www.thecannabist.co/2016/05/19/colorado-cannabis-pesticides-update/54430/.

39. Amanda Pampuro, “Talk About Pot Luck! Ganja Gourmet Gets Ready for Its Next Course,” Westword, April 19, 2017, http://www.westword.com/marijuana/ganja-gourmet-prepares-for-the-next-step-in-the-edible-evolution-8985358.

40. Lauren Viera, “Better Than Pot Brownies, by a James Beard Award–Winning Chef,” Times Style Magazine, March 24, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/t-magazine/marijuana-chocolate-candy-mindy-segal.html.

41. Jesse Pearson, “Weed and Stoner Food, Together at Last,” GQ, July 2, 2012, http://www.gq.com/story/weed-and-stoner-food-recipes-robertas-brooklyn.

42. Jesse Hirsch, “Local Cannabis Chefs Are Out to Prove Their Dinners Can Be More Than Dope,” Edible Brooklyn, March 23, 2017, https://www.ediblebrooklyn.com/2017/local-cannabis-chefs-prove-dinners-more-dope/.

43. Beca Grimm, “Baked to Perfection: This Stoned Scone Goes Perfectly with Your ‘Tea’ HC,” Merry Jane, August 9, 2017, https://merryjane.com/culture/baked-to-perfection-jessica-coles-date-scones-white-rabbit-high-tea.

44. Andy Wright, “Beyond Brownies: The Science of Cooking with Cannabis,” Splendid Table, May 4, 2017, https://www.splendidtable.org/story/beyond-brownies-the-science-of-cooking-with-cannabis.

45. Chris Sayegh, “The Herbal Chef on Terpenes: Chris Sayegh Breaks Down These Fragrant, Flavorful Oils,” Dope, July 30, 2017, http://www.dopemagazine.com/herbal-chef-terpenes-chris-sayegh-breaks-fragrant-flavorful-oils/.

46. Steve Baltin, “Meet the Herbal Chef, the Man Turning Weed-Infused Food Gourmet,” Forbes, December 5, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2017/12/05/meet-the-herbal-chef-the-man-turning-weed-infused-food-gourmet/#248058c5b246.

47. Marcia Gagliardi, “Underground Cannabis Dinners Are Creating Quite a Buzz in the Bay Area (and Wine Is No Longer the Primary Food Pairing),” KQED.org, December 29, 2017, https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/124226/underground-cannabis-dinners-are-creating-quite-a-buzz-in-the-bay-area-and-wine-is-no-longer-the-primary-food-pairing.48. Ed Murrieta, “America’s Top 10 Cannabis Chefs,” GreenState, November 22, 2017, http://www.greenstate.com/food-travel/americas-top-10-cannabis-chefs/.

49. Jackie Bryant, “San Diego Pop-Up Dinners Pair Cannabis with Food,” Eater San Diego, February 14, 2018, https://sandiego.eater.com/2018/2/14/17011216/san-diego-cannabis-marijuana-dinners.

50. Christina Orlovsky Page, “Cannabis Dinners Are Becoming ‘Almost Socially Acceptable,’” San Diego Magazine, August 1, 2017, http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/San-Diego-Magazine/August-2017/Cannabis-Dinners-are-Becoming-Almost-Socially-Acceptable/.

51. Mike Sula, “Herbal Notes Is Planting the Seeds of Culinary Cannabis in Chicago,” Chicago Reader, https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/herbal-notes-culinary-cannabis-weed-dinners-manny-mendoza/Content?oid=45808759.

52. Danya Henninger, “David Ansill’s Next Act: Marijuana-Infused Pop-Up Dinners,” Billypenn, January 29, 2017, https://billypenn.com/2017/01/29/david-ansills-next-act-marijuana-infused-pop-up-dinners/.

53. Hannah Goldfield, “A Marijuana Dinner Party Grows Underground,” The New Yorker, March 8, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/tables-for-two/an-underground-marijuana-dinner-party-grows-in-new-york?mbid=social_facebook.

54. David Jenison, “Meet the Duo Behind NYC’s Hottest Cannabis Speakeasies,” Prohibtd.com, https://prohbtd.com/meet-the-duo-behind-nycs-hottest-cannabis-speakeasies.

55. Lars Himmerskov Eriksen, “Cooking with Cannabis—a New Culinary High?” The Guardian, January 7, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/jan/07/cooking-cannabis-culinary-high-novelty-ingredient-hemp-chefs.

56. Jorges Cervantes, “The Reign of Spain: A Festive Mediterranean Lifestyle and Favorable Laws Have Made Spain the New Cannabis Capital of Europe,” High Times, June 2004, 31.

57. Maureen Meehan, “Has Spain Become Europe’s Marijuana Garden? Experts Say Si,” High Times, June 20, 2017, https://hightimes.com/news/has-spain-become-europes-marijuana-garden-experts-say-si/.

58. Rick Steves, “Want to Smoke Marijuana in Spain? Join a Club,” Huffington Post, May 24, 2016, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-steves/want-to-smoke-marijuana-i_b_10121928.html.

59. Danny Danko, “Spain,” High Times, December 2013, 50.

60. Malia Politzer, “Barcelona’s Pot Boom and Bust: The Uncertain Fate of Cannabis Clubs in ‘The Amsterdam of Southern Europe,’” Reason, March 2016, http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-443399249/barcelona-s-pot-boom-and-bust-the-uncertain-fate.

61. “Code of Conduct for European Cannabis Social Clubs,” December 9, 2011, http://www.encod.org/info/CODE-OF-CONDUCT-FOR-EUROPEAN.html.

62. Stoney Xochi, “Reflections from Barcelona: Spannabis 2017,” Cannabis Now, March 28, 2017, https://cannabisnow.com/reflections-barcelona-spannabis-2017/.

63. Beth McGroarty, “2015 Trends Report,” Spafinder Wellness 365, 2015, 15.

64. Valerie Labonne, “The Booming Business of Cannabis in Spain,” France 24, April 29, 2017, http://www.france24.com/en/20170428-reporters-spain-cannabis-clubs-marijuana-tourism-business-economy-illegal-production.

65. Uki Goni, “High Times in Montevideo: Uruguay Entering Brave New World of Pot Legalization,” Time, August 5, 2013, http://world.time.com/2013/08/05/high-times-in-montevideo-uruguay-enters-brave-new-world-of-pot-legalization/.

66. Mariela Murdocco, “Uruguay: The World’s Laboratory for Marijuana Legalisation,” The Guardian, October 4, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/uruguay-legalize-marijuana-george-soros.

67. John Walsh and Geoff Ramsey, “Uruguay’s Drug Policy: Major Innovations, Major Challenges,” Foreign Policy at Brookings, 2016, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Walsh-Uruguay-final.pdf.

68. Madison Margolin, “Weed’s Legal in Uruguay, But It Looks Nothing Like Colorado,” Jane Street, July 11, 2017, https://janest.com/article/2017/07/11/weeds-legal-uruguay-looks-nothing-like-colorado/.

69. Leonardo Haberkorn, “‘Gourmet Cannabis’: Take a Peek Inside a Uruguay Marijuana Club,” June 26, 2015, https://www.thecannabist.co/2015/06/26/photos-uruguay-marijuana-club/36742/.

70. Nick Miroff, “Inside Story on Uruguay, Where the Government Is Your Weed Dealer,” The Cannabist, July 10, 2017, https://www.thecannabist.co/2017/07/10/uruguay-cannabis-legalization-government-sales-pharmacies/83360/.

71. Meagan Campbell, “Legalizing Weed: How Uruguay Tripped Up,” Maclean’s, March 17, 2017, http://www.macleans.ca/politics/legalizing-weed-how-uruguay-tripped-up/.

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1. Zach Sokol, “A Stoned Swan Song: Scenes from the Lost Prohibition-Era Cannabis Competition in California, Where Big Weed Is Rising and Growers Are Getting Burnt,” Playboy, March/April 2018, 41.

2. Ian Lovett, “Where Cannabis Smells Like Big Business; New California Law on Marijuana Farming Draws Corporate Interest,” International New York Times, April 12, 2016, http://www.questia.com/read/1P2-39510074/where-cannabis-smells-like-big-business-new-california.

3. Robin Abcarian, “California Is Poised to Become the Center of Cannabis Culture,” Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2016, http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-cannabis-book-20160516-story.html.

4. Dana Goodyear, “California Makes Marijuana a Wellness Industry,” The New Yorker, January 31, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/california-makes-marijuana-a-wellness-industry?irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_VigLink&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_VigLink.

5. Max A. Cherney, “Marijuana Is Legal in California, but Buying It Is Neither Cheap nor Always Easy,” MarketWatch, January 7, 2018, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/marijuana-is-legal-in-california-but-buying-it-is-neither-cheap-nor-always-easy-2018-01-04.

6. Jeremy Berke, “California’s Cannabis Market Is Expected to Soar to $5.1 Billion—and It’s Going to Be Bigger Than Beer,” Business Insider, February 28, 2018, http://www.businessinsider.com/california-legalizing-weed-on-january-1-market-size-revenue-2017-12.

7. “California Reaps $60 Million in Marijuana Tax Revenue, Loses $7 Billion to Gig Economy,” 420 Intel, May 15, 2018, http://420intel.com/articles/2018/05/15/california-reaps-60-million-marijuana-tax-revenue-loses-7-billion-gig-economy?utm_source=420+Intel+-+Marijuana+Industry+News&utm_campaign=1d3fedc3cd-420+Intel&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3210cbef52-1d3fedc3cd-274925957.

8. Marisa Kendall, “Edibles Feast: Companies Ready to Grab a Big Piece of California’s Recreational Marijuana Market,” The Cannabist, May 30, 2017, http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/05/30/california-recreational-marijuana-sales-edibles/80392/.

9. Amanda Chicago Lewis, “Ten Popular Weed Products That Could Soon Be Illegal under Proposed Regulations,” LAist, May 15, 2017, http://laist.com/2017/05/15/weed_products.php.

10. Joseph Misulonas, “California Edibles Makers Are Being Shut Out by the State,” Civilized, March 27, 2018, https://www.civilized.life/articles/california-edibles-makers-shut-out/.

11. Elise McDonough, “California’s Marijuana Edibles Makers Are Going Extinct,” GreenState, March 26, 2018, http://www.greenstate.com/news/california-marijuana-edibles-makers-are-going-extinct/.

12. Elise McDonough, “California’s Cannabis Edibles Just Got Surprisingly Boring,” Vice Munchies, January 8, 2018, https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/3k55qj/californias-cannabis-edibles-just-got-surprisingly-boring.

13. William Sumner, “The Rise of Cannawine—Cannabis-Infused Wine,” Green Market Report, April 4, 2018, https://www.greenmarketreport.com/the-rise-of-cannawine-cannabis-infused-wine/.

14. “Only One in Seven California Cities Allow Recreational Marijuana Stores,” 420 Intel, April 16, 2018, http://420intel.com/articles/2018/04/16/only-one-seven-california-cities-allow-recreational-marijuana-stores?utm_source=420+Intel+-+Marijuana+Industry+News&utm_campaign=0e02b9ca44-420+Intel&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3210cbef52-0e02b9ca44-274925957.

15. Brooke Staggs, “High Marijuana Taxes Spark Sticker Shock for California Cannabis Customers,” Pasadena Star-News, January 26, 2018, http://www.questia.com/read/1P4-1991581406/high-marijuana-taxes-spark-sticker-shock-for-california.

16. Zach Harris, “California’s Legal Weed Sales Are Lagging Behind Expectations, Analysts Say,” Merry Jane, April 11, 2018, https://merryjane.com/news/california-legal-weed-sales-lagging-behind-expectations-analysts-say.

17. Harris, “California’s Legal Weed Sales.”

18. Althia Raj, “Trudeau Tells Senators to Pass His Government’s Marijuana Legalization Bill,” Huffington Post, March 22, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/03/22/trudeau-senate-pot-marijuana-vote_a_23392813/.

19. Julie Weed, “Move Over California—Canada’s Opening Its Own $5B Cannabis Market in 2018,” Forbes, December 18, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/julieweed/2017/12/18/never-mind-california-canadas-opening-its-own-5b-cannabis-market-in-2018/#5e15f38a5ae6.

20. Celia Carr, “New Report from CIBC Expects Legal Cannabis Sales in Canada Will Top Alcohol Sales by 2020,” 420 Intel, May 9, 2018, http://420intel.com/articles/2018/05/09/new-report-cibc-expects-legal-cannabis-sales-canada-will-top-alcohol-sales-2020?utm_source=420%20Intel%20-%20Marijuana%20Industry%20News&utm_campaign=8feba2e2af-420%20Intel&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3210cbef52-8feba2e2af-274925957.

21. Oliver Bennett, “Canada’s Rocky Road Journey to Legalising Cannabis,” Independent, October 16, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/canada-cannabis-legal-justin-trudeau-decriminalise-weed-journey-a7996696.html.

22. Patricia G. Erickson, “Recent Trends in Canadian Drug Policy: The Decline and Resurgence of Prohibitionism,” Daedalus 121, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 239–67, 241.

23. Emily F. Murphy, The Black Candle (Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1922), 333, https://archive.org/details/TheBlackCandle.

24. Catherine Carstairs and University of Guelph, “How Pot-Smoking Became Illegal in Canada,” Canadian Press, March 16, 2018, http://www.questia.com/read/1P4-2014766632/how-pot-smoking-became-illegal-in-canada.

25. Erikson, “Recent Trends in Canadian Drug Policy,” 239–67, 248–49.

26. Ian Austen, “In Canada, Growing Cannabis Goes Corporate; New Rules Make Way for Large-Scale Production of Medical Marijuana,” International New York Times, May 26, 2014, http://www.questia.com/read/1P2-38009691/in-canada-growing-cannabis-goes-corporate-new-rules.

27. Alexandra Gill, “It’s High Time Vancouver Hopped on the Weed Tourism Boat,” Vv, April 20, 2015, http://viewthevibe.com/its-high-time-vancouver-hopped-on-the-weed-tourism-boat/.

28. Danny Kruger, “How to Make Cannabis Boring,” The Spectator, March 11, 2017, http://www.questia.com/read/1P4-1917480006/how-to-make-cannabis-boring.

29. Jacquie Miller, “Cannabis Gummy Bears and Cookies: Edible Products Pose a Challenge as Canada Moves to Legalize Pot,” Toronto Sun, June 18, 2017, http://m.torontosun.com/2017/06/18/cannabis-gummy-bears-and-cookies-edible-products-pose-a-challenge-as-canada-moves-to-legalize-pot.

30. Jonathan Hiltz, “Can I Make Money with Cannabis Edibles?” Food in Canada, April 24, 2018, http://www.foodincanada.com/food-in-canada/cannabis-edibles-139546/.

31. Salma Ibrahim, “Brownies and Beer: How Edible Cannabis Businesses Plan to Cash in on Legalization,” CBC News, February 13, 2018, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/joint-ventures-edibles-1.4532562.

32. “In Canada, Marijuana Edible Sales Delayed Even as Interest Among Canadians Grows,” Entrepreneur, October 17, 2017, https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/302736?mc_cid=d70d298e7d&mc_eid=19320b5337.

33. Rebecca Harris, “The New ‘Baked’ Goods: Canada’s New Marijuana Legislation Could Open up Big Opportunities for Makers of Edibles,” Food in Canada, February 26, 2018, http://www.foodincanada.com/features/new-baked-goods/.

34. Scott Wilson, “Outlaw Weed Comes into the Light,” Washington Post, March 16, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/03/16/feature/californias-outlaw-marijuana-culture-faces-a-harsh-reckoning-legal-weed/?utm_term=.2d18a996b78b.

35. Brad Branan, “Growers Association Sues State over Large-Scale Marijuana Farms in California,” Sacramento Bee, January 24, 2018, http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/california-weed/article196400149.html.

36. Mike Adams, “6 Cannabis Industry Trends Shaping the Future of Pot,” Cannabis Now, April 16, 2018, https://cannabisnow.com/cannabis-industry-trends/.

37. Alicia Wallace, “How One of America’s Most Visible Fortune 1000 Giants Quietly Snuck into the Cannabis Industry,” The Cannabist, September 22, 2016, https://www.thecannabist.co/2016/09/22/scotts-miracle-gro-cannabis-hawthorne-gardening-co-hydroponics/61763/.

38. Alicia Wallace, “Scotts Miracle-Gro in Talks with EPA about Marijuana Pesticides,” The Cannabist, November 4, 2016, https://www.thecannabist.co/2016/11/04/scotts-marijuana-pesticides-epa-talks/66773/.

39. Jennifer Long, “George Soros and Big Agriculture Move the Marijuana Movement,” Geopolitika.ru, https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/837-george-soros-and-big-agriculture-move-the-marijuana-movement.html.

40. Dan Alexander, “Cannabis Capitalist: Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO Bets Big on Pot Growers,” Forbes, July 26, 2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2016/07/06/cannabis-capitalist-scotts-miracle-gro-ceo-bets-big-on-pot-growers/#694b80f86155.

41. “Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer Monsanto Merger,” FarmAid.org, March 8, 2018, https://www.farmaid.org/issues/corporate-power/farmers-overwhelmingly-oppose-bayer-monsanto-merger/.

42. Alex Halperin, “Chem Tales: What Will the Bayer-Monsanto Merger Mean for Cannabis?” San Francisco Weekly, September 28, 2016, http://www.sfweekly.com/news/chemtales/chem-tales-will-bayer-monsanto-merger-mean-cannabis/.

43. Carrie Arnold, “The Rise of MarijuanaTM (Patent Pending),” Nova Next, October 19, 2016, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/evolution/patenting-pot/.

44. Amanda Chicago Lewis, “The Great Pot Monopoly Mystery,” GQ, August 23, 2017, https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-pot-monopoly-mystery?mc_cid=c611164cc9&mc_eid=19320b5337.

45. Mike Adams, “Many Vegetable Growers Want to Transition to Mari-juana,” Fresh Toast, January 29, 2018, https://thefreshtoast.com/cannabis/many-vegetable-growers-want-transition-marijuana/.

46. Adams, “6 Cannabis Industry Trends.”

47. Brent Bambury, “Big Weed: Why Legalization Isn’t Necessarily a Boon for Craft Cannabis Producers,” CBC Radio, May 19, 2018, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-390-how-conflict-helps-netanyahu-harry-and-meghan-chasing-lava-corporate-weed-deadpool-2-and-more-1.4666331/big-weed-why-legalization-isn-t-necessarily-a-boon-for-craft-cannabis-producers-1.4666338.

48. “Canopy Growth Enters 5th Continent with $29 Million African Cannabis Producer Acquisition,” New Cannabis Ventures, May 30, 2018, https://www.newcannabisventures.com/canopy-growth-enters-5th-continent-with-29-million-african-cannabis-producer-acquisition/.

49. Sean Williams, “The Largest Pot Stock in the World Is Moving to the NYSE,” May 21, 2018, https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/05/21/the-largest-pot-stock-in-the-world-is-moving-to-th.aspx.

50. “Cannabis May Be the Next Trend for a ‘Desperate’ Food Industry,” Lift, December 30, 2016, https://news.lift.co/cannabis-may-be-the-next-trend-for-a-desperate-food-industry/amp/.

51. Faith Popcorn, “Investing in the Future,” Food & Drink, September 22, 2017, http://www.fooddrink-magazine.com/sections/columns/2288-investing-in-the-future.

52. “The Marijuana Industry’s Newest Spokesman? Former House Speaker John Boehner,” Fortune, April 11, 2018, http://fortune.com/2018/04/11/pot-marijuana-john-boehner-speaker-republican/.