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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
TL;DR: we can’t have nice things because white supremacists ruin everything.
One of the better non-fiction comics I’ve read this year - concise, entertaining and timely (howdy from Oklahoma in the Summer of 2020!).
Good story flow and before you know it you’re at the end of 244 pages like damn, there’s no escaping white supremacist policies because it’s baked into the entire system.
One of the better non-fiction comics I’ve read this year - concise, entertaining and timely (howdy from Oklahoma in the Summer of 2020!).
Good story flow and before you know it you’re at the end of 244 pages like damn, there’s no escaping white supremacist policies because it’s baked into the entire system.
Everything Box Brown makes is great. Thoroughly researched, entertaining, great cartooning. This one specifically is an inspired look at how racism and politics lead to misinformation, which leads to more racism and politics, and on and on. A timely read, both because of the current decriminalization movement and the focus on misinformation.
Box Brown turns over another piece of history to reveal it's secret history. I think I'd ready pretty much anything Box Brown produces. I loved Andre the Giant and got sucked in to Tetris. I wasn't sure that I'd like or appreciate Cannabis, but I was wrong. Brown's simple line drawing and matter-of-fact writing style make clear muddled history. I think this is a timely book, not just because there are recreational cannabis laws popping up on ballots across the country, but also because we're continually being faced with dissembling politicians trotting out "scientific facts" and "polls" to support whatever legislation they're being paid to support.
3.5 stars, but I'll round up. While much of the information was not revelatory, it was interesting and well laid out. The degree to which cannabis was demonized along racist paths, and, to a lesser extent, simply to further the career of a dogmatic man, makes me sad. I wish there had been a little more information about the truth, with research and therapeutic effects, rather than focusing on how much of the propaganda was lies.
Clear and well presented accounting of the bigoted and insidious drive to punish (especially marginalized) people for a vice much less harmful than cigarettes and alcohol. Box's work is always fantastic.