Killer Weed: Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice

by Connie Carter and Susan C. Boyd

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442612142
• ISBN13: 9781442612143
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher