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  • Legalizing Cannabis

    Experiences, Lessons and Scenarios

    Edited by Tom Decorte, Simon Lenton, Chris Wilkins ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the world. Over the past couple of decades, several Western jurisdictions have seen reforms in, or changes to, the way cannabis use is being controlled, departing from traditional approaches of criminal prohibition that have dominated cannabis use control regimes for most of the twentieth century. While reform is stalled at the international level, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Regulating Cannabis

    A Detailed Scenario for a Nonprofit Cannabis Market

    by Tom Decorte ...
    With the legalization of recreational cannabis markets in Uruguay, Canada, and several U.S. states, a breakthrough in conventional cannabis policy is emerging.But legalization is not a binary choice between prohibition and some regulated commercial model (like alcohol). A commercial market is just one of many ways to implement legalizationand moving directly from prohibition to commercial ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • World Wide Weed

    Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and its Control

    by Tom Decorte ...
    For the majority of its history, the cultivation of cannabis did not stand out, at least compared to the cultivation of other illegal plants. Cannabis plantations, like coca bush or opium poppy plantations, were typically large in size, grown by local farmers in a handful of developing (producing) countries, processed and then exported to industrial (consuming) nations. While cocaine and heroin ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science

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  • Weathering

    The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

    by Dr. Arline T Geronimus ...
    **Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people."Monumental." —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning**America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced ... Read more

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  • Seed Sovereignty, Food Security

    Women in the Vanguard of the Fight against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture

    Edited by Vandana Shiva ...
    In this unique anthology, women from around the world write about the movement to change the current, industrial paradigm of how we grow our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as scientists, activists, and scholars, they are dedicated to renewing a food system that is better aligned with ecological processes as well as human health and global social justice. Seed Sovereignty, Food Security ... Read more

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  • Cannabis

    A Complete Guide

    by Ernest Small ...
    Cannabis sativa is best known as the source of marijuana, the world’s most widely consumed illicit recreational drug. However, the plant is also extremely useful as a source of stem fiber, edible seed oil, and medicinal compounds, all of which are undergoing extremely promising research, technological applications, and business investment. Indeed, despite its capacity for harm as a recreational ... Read more

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  • Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy

    A Global Citizens Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture

    by Navdanya International ...
    As the world’s billionaire class reaps record profits and global inequalities further divide nations and communities, this anthology compiled by renown activist Dr. Vandana Shiva pulls back the curtain on how ruthless capitalistic exploitation branded as philanthropic altruism forges a direct path to global destruction.Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Demo**cracy: A Global Citizens’ Report ... Read more

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  • The Second Report on the State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Assessments

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This report updates the global assessment provided in the first report on The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, published in 2007. It focuses particularly on changes that have occurred during the period since the first report was published. It serves as a basis for a review, and potential update, of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources, which ... Read more

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  • Environmental Health

    From Global to Local

    Edited by Howard Frumkin ...
    Series series Public Health/Environmental Health
    The bestselling environmental health text, with all new coverage of key topicsEnvironmental Health: From Global to Local is a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and a contemporary, authoritative text for students of public health, environmental health, preventive medicine, community health, and environmental studies. Edited by the former director of the CDC's National Center for ... Read more

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  • Indicators of the Genetic Diversity of Trees – State, Pressure, Benefit and Response: The State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources – Thematic Study

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This study, prepared within the ambit of The State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources, reviews issues related to the development of indicators for tree genetic diversity. It includes a historical account of the development of science-based indicators for tree genetic diversity that embrace ecological surrogates for genetic diversity, the genealogical approach, genetic monitoring of management ... Read more

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  • Farmers' Rights

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Through trial and error, they bred and grew crops that could cope with their environment and needs. In so doing they created diversity – a wealth of plant genetic diversity of global importance for food and agriculture. With their knowledge and skills, they managed and conserved the food crops that feed the world today. However, this important role of farmers, as custodians and innovators of plant ... Read more

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