Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Takoma, presents Bruce Barcott to discuss his new book Weed The People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America.
Today’s groundswell in favor of legal marijuana heralds many socio-economic changes. In his third book, Barcott, author of The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, reports from states on the front line of pot legalization—Washington and Colorado—to show us what to expect. His findings confirm that relaxing pot laws does not increase crime, for instance, even as it raises questions of zoning and etiquette: when is it appropriate to share? To bring your own? Barcott will be in conversation with Alison Holcomb, the architect of Washington State’s successful legalization campaign; Holcomb was recently named national director of the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice, an effort to end America’s mass incarceration crisis.
