Cannabis

From social history to substance addiction, brain chemistry to business management, discover informational texts that explore marijuana and its recreational and medical use, selected by RCL subject editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

Updated July 1, 2026
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The business of cannabis : new policies for the new marijuana industry
Summers, D. J.
Paper Book
What happens when corporate culture takes over counterculture? This book explores the contradictions present within the cannabis industry from a business and policy perspective. Despite the unique culture surrounding cannabis, this new industry follows the same economic...
Waiting to inhale : cannabis legalization and the fight for racial justice
Owusu-Bempah, Akwasi
Paper Book
The roots of a racial reckoning through the lens of cannabis. From the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them. Even now, as white Americans who largely escaped the fire capitalize on the...
Getting high : marijuana through the ages
Chasteen, John Charles
Paper Book
This fascinating book traces the global history of marijuana, reaching back thousands of years. Noted historian John Charles Chasteen follows the use of the drug since Neolithic times, which makes marijuana among the first domesticated plants. Surprisingly, though, only infrequently has it been...

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