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How earnest hippies, frightened parents, struggling patients, and other common Americans went to war over weed In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational weed. To many, extended improvement seems certain. But pot was on an identical trajectory 40 years back, only to come across a brutal backlash. In Lawn Origins, historian Emily Dufton tells the remarkable storyline of marijuana's crooked path from popularity to demonization and again and of the thousands of grassroots activists who made changing weed laws their life's work. During the 1970s, pro-pot campaigners with root base in the counterculture guaranteed the drug's decriminalization in twelve states. Soon, though, concerned parents commenced to mobilize; finding a champ in Nancy Reagan, they changed pot into a national scourge and helped to pave the way for an intense war on drugs. Chastened weed advocates retooled their message, promoting pot as a medical requirement and finally declaring legalization a matter of racial justice. For the moment, these activists are being successful - but marijuana's record suggests how swiftly another counterrevolution could unfold.
