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| Author | Ryan Stoa |
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| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
Publication date | 2018 |
| ISBN | 9780262038867 |
Craft Weed: Family Farming and the Future of the Marijuana Industry is a 2018 MIT Press book by Ryan Stoa. In it, he argues for an American cannabis industry that looks more like the craft beer industry, [1] and less like "Big Marijuana" equivalent of Anheuser-Busch. [2] The author is an associate professor of law at Concordia University School of Law in Boise, Idaho. [3]
A review in The Times Literary Supplement said the book author's "expertise is undeniable" but "some of his deeper trawls through legislature slow an otherwise intriguing narrative". [4] Another review found merit in Stoa's advocacy for agricultural law reform around craft cannabis, to include an appellation system for cannabis parallel to that of the American Viticultural Areas (AVAs). [5]
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Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis is a 2016 American and nonfiction book by writer and former-magazine editor Joe Dolce. The book is about cannabis, the cannabis industry, and cannabis culture around the world, during the period of cannabis legalization in the United States.
Commodifying Cannabis: A Cultural History of a Complex Plant in the Atlantic World is a 2018 nonfiction book by Bradley J Borougerdi about the historical and present commodification of Cannabis by society and the industry. It examines in particular "the connection between ancient uses of cannabis and our more recent social and cultural contexts" in the Anglo-American Atlantic world, and "the trajectory of cannabis commodification in the early modern period, the prohibition of cannabis in the nineteenth century, and the recent re-commodification of cannabis". The book, incorporating three centuries of source material, is based on the author's PhD dissertation "Cord of Empire, Exotic Intoxicant: Hemp and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1600–1900". Borougerdi received his degree from University of Texas at Austin Department of History, advised by Christopher Morris.
