The Rise and Fall of Cannabis Prohibition in Wisconsin was included in a Madison Magazine review https://www.channel3000.com/add-these-local-books-to-your-2020-reading-l... by Joel Patenaude of 23 books written by local authors or about the Madison area!
“The Rise and Fall of Cannabis Prohibition in Wisconsin” by Gary Storck:
Marijuana legalization activist and Madison resident Gary Storck describes this book, a reflection of his life’s work, as “one part history book, one part memoir and one part encyclopedia.” That’s indeed how Storck, editor and publisher of Cannabadger.com, organized this comprehensive, nearly 400-page self-published reference book. Storck tracks the gradual changing of attitudes and support by Wisconsin residents for legalization of medical and recreational use of cannabis by citing polling data and news stories on the subject along the way. He includes his own story — using marijuana starting in his teens in the 1970s to treat the glaucoma he’s had since birth, and becoming an activist for legalization in the late 1990s. While “Rise and Fall” could be expected to read like a one-side screed, it does not. Storck may not be impartial, but he is a decades-long observer of the legislative process and he relies on statewide arrest records, drafts of bill and local mainstream media coverage to flesh out his chronology of the debate. After following all the twists and turns of the cannabis story Storck recounts, readers are not left wondering why the question of legalization hasn’t come to a head yet in Wisconsin. –JP
