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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Quick read and simple art help tell the history without distracting from it. Very informative. A great bibliography at the end as well!
3.5 Stars
This books is a little slow moving and seems to repeat itself a little. However, it was full of information and gave a complete history on the illegalization of weed. The story is easy to follow and I left it feeling like I knew a little more. It also revamped my passion in the fight to legalize!
This books is a little slow moving and seems to repeat itself a little. However, it was full of information and gave a complete history on the illegalization of weed. The story is easy to follow and I left it feeling like I knew a little more. It also revamped my passion in the fight to legalize!
While not all the information presented in this was new or shocking, it was still presented very clearly and concisely. Highly recommended (and that’s coming from a straight edger)!
Informative yet boring. For a graphic novel I was hoping for some enjoyment, but with a simplistic art style, this could have easily been a non-fiction novel. #cannabis #netgalley
On the whole, I think I like Box Brown's biographies better. While I realize this was an overview of the criminalization of weed, I find the most compelling stories to be surrounding its history since the 70s/80s with the targeting of minorities and its use during the AIDS crisis (I did not know that that was how the concept of medical marijuana really took off!), and I kinda wish this book looked mostly at that.
I fell in love with Box Brown when I read his graphic novel Tetris a couple years back. That was an exquisite origin story of the famous video game that read like a John Le Carré spy novel. This is his newest on the history of cannabis and it reads a bit like a paint-by-numbers story from a super long Wikipedia article. And, like a long Wikipedia article, it’s just not quite deep enough on a few fronts. I kept wanting to know more about cannabis from a social, psychological, or cultural perspective, and it doesn’t really get into any of that. If you’re interested in the general history of cannabis then this is a great primer and some fun bits of trivia. But, if you’re looking for immersive graphic novel to get lost in, I’d recommend his Tetris - which again, is just great - or the absolutely exquisite Berlin by Jason Lutes.
informative
medium-paced
Although it had interesting historical points, I felt that this portrayal the history of cannabis was one sided and really didn't address the hazards that do exist with pot use. It felt more of a novel propaganda than a book providing an unbiased history around the issue.
Ok. I knew most of this already, at least in the large brush strokes. I wasn't aware of the enormous influence, if the facts here are correct, of Harry Anslinger. From this book it almost seems like he single-handedly affected drug policy in the USA and UN.
Box Brown at his finest yet again. This time about the history of Cannabis and how it has traveled from other lands to the States. Then Mr. Government wants money out of it and starts implementing law and locking people up for possession. Interesting perspective with great citation of books and online materials he references.