Book Review of Smoke Signals: a Social History of Marijuana

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I’ll need to retrieve my copy of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana, by Martin Lee, in order to do a thorough review.

For now, suffice it to say that this book has an abundance of footnotes. 407 of them, 66 pages. 16 pages of bibliography- I didn’t count every page, but it works out to somewhere between 400-500 sources. Because Martin Lee is not narrowly confining his account to clinical studies and medical observations, many of the references provide a wide array of social historical detail, to serve as context for the narrative that he provides.