Smoke signals : a social history of marijuana : medical, recreational, and scientific / Martin A. Lee.

New York, NY : Scribner, 2013.

vii, 519 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

First Scribner trade paperback edition.

Herblore : Black and blue ; New world hemp ; Elixirs and tinctures ; High on hash ; Sex, drugs, and the occult -- Prohibition : The Mexican connection ; The mighty Mezz ; Voodoo pharmacology ; A truth drug ; Cold War cannabis ; Writing the reality script -- Reefer rebellion : Seeds of change ; The riddle of THC ; Grass and acid ; A tipping point ; Legalize it! ; Flower power ; High spies -- The big chill : This means war ; Dr. Mikuriya's medicine ; The euphoria of secrecy ; Seeing is believing ; Rasta vibration ; In your face -- Just say never : Reefer sadness ; The laughing cure ; Home grown ; Going Dutch ; Drug-war doublespeak ; The hemperor -- From blunts to ballots : Bush v. weed ; The brain and marijuana ; Hip-hop hemp ; To live and die in San Francisco ; The pot club ; Crossing the rubicon -- Fire in the belly : Counterattack ; Unchartered waters ; Southern exposure ; Falling dominos ; The stake-out ; Veterans for drug-war peace -- Ground zero : Narcs gone wild! ; Show trials ; Physicians in the crosshairs ; The Supreme Court punts ; The long arm of the DEA ; Ten years after -- Mellow mayhem : Senior stoners ; An industry emerges ; Healing without the high ; Booze or bud? ; The green rush ; Suffer the children -- Appendices.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-488) and index.