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To understand how we got here and how the legal cannabis industry might become more environmentally sustainable grass roots looks at the history of marijuana growing in the american west from early mexican american growers on sugar beet farms to todays sophisticated greenhouse gardens over the past eighty years federal marijuana . Grass roots uses the history of cannabis as a crop to make sense of its regulation in the present highlighting current efforts to make the marijuana industry more sustainable there are many social and political histories of cannabis but in considering cannabis as a plant rather than as a drug grass roots offers the only agriculturally . During a moment when most coverage of cannabis is overwhelmingly positive and gives a no turning back now view of legalization grass roots offers something really important an understanding of the history of marijuana as a agricultural product and an investigation into its environmental impact in the american west. Marijuana legalization is unfolding across the american west but cultivation of the cannabis plant is anything but green unregulated outdoor grows are polluting ecosystems high powered indoor grows are churning out an excessive carbon footprint and the controversial crop is becoming an agricultural boon just as the region faces an unprecedented water crisis. Grass roots uses the history of cannabis as a crop to make sense of its regulation in the present highlighting current efforts to make the marijuana industry more sustainable in exploring the agricultural history of cannabis there are many social and political histories of cannabis but in considering cannabis as a plant rather than as a