How did you get taught about drugs?
In Mexico City-based drug journalist Caitlin Donohue’s book for young adults ‘Weed: Cannabis Cultures in the Americas’, the subject is approached via the roles that substances — in this case, marijuana — and their prohibition play in communities across the Western hemisphere.
Her readers learn what the plant means to a 14-year-old medical cannabis consumer in Buenos Aires, a Mexican corridos verdes singer, an L.A. auto shop owner who spent a year in an adult prison after getting caught with two ounces at 17, decriminalization activists and policymakers, a nurse, a cook, a sustainable engineer, and more.
The author Donohue will be in conversation with drug law historian Kojo Koram.
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