Just Dope Paperback by Allison Margolin

Product Details

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (2022-08-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781623176860
• Item Weight: 413.91 grams
• Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 0.6 cm

For readers of Dopesick and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a celebrated cannabis attorney's personal look at the War on Drugs and what comes next for the drug legalization movement

Getting high is something most of us do, and in many cases do safely--yet drugs remain a singular public enemy. In a ranging blend of memoir, pop culture, policy critique, and social analysis, LA-based criminal defense attorney Allison Margolin explores why--and what we can do about it.

Informed by Margolin’s experiences as a drug user, advocate, and the daughter of California’s most renowned (and infamous) cannabis attorney, Just Dope offers a look at where our current drug policy fails. It exposes the true history of drug prohibition in the United States, sharing why it started, how it evolved, and where it stands now. And it looks unflinchingly at the false dichotomy between “good” drugs and “bad” drugs and Margolin’s experience with programs like D.A.R.E that misguidedly ask you to “Just Say No.”

For readers of All Day is a Long Time and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Just Dope is an experiential tour-de-force of personal essay and whip-smart policy critique—and a vital call to knowledge and action.

About the Author

ALLISON MARGOLIN is a Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney and one of the nation’s leading experts in cannabis licensing and the law. She has degrees from Columbia and Harvard Law and has been named a SuperLawyer Rising Star 7 times. Margolin has contributed to articles in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and LA Weekly. In 2006, she made headlines by advertising herself as “LA’s Dopest Attorney” on billboards throughout the city and has run a law practice for the past 18 years.