Weed Rules: Blazing the Way to a Just and Joyful Marijuana Policy

The book "Weed Rules" argues that states should abandon their grudging tolerance approach to legal weed and embrace careful exuberance to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it. It suggests focusing on joy and community can lead to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities play a leading role in the industry.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 18 April 2023
Publisher: University of California Press

With full legalization seemingly inevitable, it's time to shift the conversation—from whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their grudging tolerance approach to legal weed and to embrace careful exuberance. In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it.

The grudging tolerance approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some cases—limiting how and where cannabis can be used, cultivated, marketed, and sold—and far too loose in others, allowing employers and police to discriminate against users. This book shows how focusing on joy and community can lead us to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities, most harmed by the war on drugs, play a leading role in the industry. Centering pleasure and fun as legitimate policy goals, Weed Rules puts forth specific policies to advocate for a more just, sensible, and joyous post-legalization society.

Weight: 526g
Dimension: 236 x 160 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520343924