Summary: Nuns, guns, and cannabis. Meet Sister Kate, former high-flying corporate executive, reborn rebel and founder of Sisters of the Valley, California's fastest growing marijuana farm, providing medical cannabis to those in need. This is her journey to becoming a voice for the unheard, and possibly the most feared nun in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRESummary: From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California's newly legal cannabis trade. But as aggressive regulations bogart the market, can they each keep their green American dream alight?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LADSummary: Sunnyvale is now under Julian's control with Bubbles providing musical entertainment in his bar and Ricky and Lucy running the local "Drugs Store". However, Barb is out of jail and determined to get the park back by taking Julian to court. Under pressure from Lucy, Ricky is unsuccessfully trying to stay out of trouble and to hang on to the money that he has set aside for Trinity and Jacob's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EOne Films 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRAFrank, Matthew Gavin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 FRASummary: "British Columbia's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into an unstoppable business giant, dubbed by those involved as "The Union." Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through interviews with growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNIRash, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RASCabot, Heather
Summary: "A fascinating journey into the booming business of legal cannabis: the first deeply reported story of how marijuana shed its stigma and came to be embraced by new and unlikely enthusiasts, from "Chardonnay Moms," to health and wellness fanatics, to agingbaby boomers. From headlines like "Pets on Pot" to Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart "putting the pot back into potluck" in their Emmy-nominated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 CABSchou, Nick.
Summary: "Drawing on unparalleled access to sources ranging from doctors and lawyers to lobbyists, cannabis club owners, outlaw cultivators, and industry entrepreneurs, The Weed Runners is both journalistic expose and adventure story. The book's title refers to those who run the vast network fueling the ongoing nationwide explosion of medical marijuana. Focusing on an incredibly dynamic three-year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 SCHSummary: There's a new gold rush in America's west where decades of marijuana prohibition are coming to an end and Wall Street is moving in. With predictions that sales and profits will grow by 64 percent in the next year, thousands of new businesses are entering the market-but there is a growing opposition warning that a new Big Tobacco is being created.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Dokoupil, Tony.
Summary: "NBC News"senior writer Dokoupil offers a gripping examination of his longtime marijuana-dealing father, as well as a researched look at the evolution of American narcotics laws. In the early 1970s, Dokoupil's father, also named Tony, dropped out of graduate school to deal marijuana. Dokoupil recounts how the smuggling and distribution business ran and contextualizes it within the Great Stoned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOKOUPIL, TONY DOKRosenthal, Ed
Summary: Beyond Buds is a handbook to the future of marijuana. Prohibition’s end has led to a technological revolution that’s generated powerful medicines and products containing almost zero carcinogens and little smoke. Marijuana icon Ed Rosenthal and leading cannabis reporter David Downs guide readers through the best new consumer products, and demonstrate how to make and use the safest, cleanest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quick American 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.4 ROSHageseth, Christian
Summary: Christian Hageseth is the face of the revolution-an entrepreneur and father of three who worked in the white-collar professional world for 20 years before opening his first dispensary. The Founder and Chairman of Green Man Cannabis, the fastest-growing legalized marijuana company in the country, he's the perfect tour guide through the wild frontier, where police hardly know what laws to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 HAGBoyle, T. Coraghessan.
Summary: Felix is a quitter, with a poor track record behind him. Until the day the opportunity presents itself to make half a million dollars tax-free - by nurturing 390 acres of cannabis in the lonely hills of northern California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYKelsay, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELMaguire, Peter (Peter H.)
Summary: "Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter are the first historians to document this underground industry, the only record of its existence rooted in the fading memories of its elusive participants. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement agents, the authors recount the buy, delivery, voyage home, and product offload. They capture the eccentric personalities of the men and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.45 MAGPetrie, Nicholas
Summary: Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Henry's son-in-law and the company's operations manager were carrying a large sum of client money when their vehicle vanished without a trace, leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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Summary: Marijuana subtly damages the teenage brain, causing lifelong problems. Yet four million teens in Canada and the United States use the drug, a half million of them daily. For those who have heard only the pro-legalization side, this book presents the case against marijuana on an equal footing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chiron Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345 GOGSummary: Iowa has corn. Kansas has wheat. The preferred crop in northern California, however, will never be a Wall Street commodity. This CNBC Original documentary examines the pot industry of Mendocino County, which forms part of the so-called Emerald Triangle-the cannabis capital of the U.S. Sizing up the financial clout of pot-farming (both legal and criminal) as potentially two-thirds of the local...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009