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Boyd, Susan C.; Carter, Connie; Boyd, Susan C. - Killer Weed - 9781442643673 - V9781442643673
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Killer Weed

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Description for Killer Weed Going beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged from the media narrative have troubling consequences for a shrinking Canadian civil society. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5, 18 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFH1; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.

Since the late 1990s, marijuana grow operations have been identified by media and others as a new and dangerous criminal activity of “epidemic” proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their analysis of fifteen years of newspaper coverage to show how consensus about the dangerous people and practices associated with marijuana cultivation was created and disseminated by numerous spokespeople including police, RCMP, and the media in Canada. The authors focus on the context of media reports in Canada to show how claims about marijuana cultivation have intensified the perception that this activity poses “significant” dangers to ... Read more

Boyd and Carter carefully show how the media draw on the same spokespeople to tell the same story again and again, and how a limited number of messages has led to an expanding anti-drug campaign that uses not only police, but BC Hydro and local municipalities to crack down on drug production. Going beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged from the media narrative have troubling consequences for a shrinking Canadian civil society.

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Product Details

Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442643673
SKU
V9781442643673
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Boyd, Susan C.; Carter, Connie; Boyd, Susan C.
Susan C. Boyd is a professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria. Connie Carter is a senior policy analyst for the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition.

Reviews for Killer Weed
‘A first-rate book about marijuana, grow operations, and the media in Canada…. The book is both rigorous and sound, and will be of use to academics and graduate students doing work in drug policy, media studies, and sociology… Highly recommended.’
R.Koop
Choice vol 52:03:2014

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