ARTICLES ABOUT EMILY:
“Here Are the 2022 Whiting Grantees,” November 1, 2022
“Gallatin Alumna Receives 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant,” NYU, November 1, 2022
“Emily Dufton, Casey Parks, Jessica Goudeau and William G. Thomas III Named Winners of the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards,” Columbia Journalism School, March 24, 2021
“5 Authors of Intriguing Books About History and Culture,” Ezvid Wiki, July 30, 2020
"Turning a Leaf, Over and Over," George Washington University Magazine, August 8, 2018
"Why it can be okay to call it 'marijuana' instead of cannabis," The Verge, April 19, 2018
Interview: "Q&A: America's Marijuana Moments," The American Prospect, January 25, 2018
Interview: "'Grass Roots' Traces the History of Marijuana Legalization Activism -- and Those Who Tried to Stop It," Merry Jane, January 10, 2018
"Reading with... Emily Dufton," Shelf Awareness, December 15, 2017
"Bongs for kids, profits for companies? Scholar Emily Dufton on the past and future of marijuana activism," The Verge, December 11, 2017
"Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Debating Pot in America," The New York Times, December 5, 2017
ARTICLES ABOUT GRASS ROOTS:
“The Top 5 Cannabis Books to Have In Your Personal Library,” 10buds.com, July 20, 2021
“The 8 Best Weed Books to Read Right Now,” Rolling Stone, August 23, 2019
“Regulate It, Man,” The New York Review of Books, December 20, 2018
“Review: Emily Dufton, ‘Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America,’” The American Historical Review, December 3, 2018
“Best non-fiction books of 2018,” Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, November 27, 2018
“Book explores policy battles over marijuana use,” The Sandusky Register, October 13, 2018
"What I've been reading," Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, May 30, 2018
"Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America: A Must Read," Weed News, April 19, 2018
"Kuzmarov on Dufton, 'Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana,'" HNet, April 12, 2018
"The 10 Best Books On Why We Fight For Cannabis," Weed Reader, February 5, 2018
"Review: Grass Roots," Freedom Leaf, January 31, 2018
"Review: The Other Green Revolution," The Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2018
"Grass roots: Emily Dufton revisits the marijuana movement," Lansing City Pulse, January 4, 2018
"The Bookworm Sez: 'Grass Roots' lays out history of marijuana," The Peninsula Clarion, December 27, 2017
"'Grass Roots' chronicles marijuana laws' disjointed history in the U.S.," Oregon Live, December 12, 2017
"The Canon: Books to Read in December," The Riveter, December 7, 2017
"The 15 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In December 2017," Bustle, December 1, 2017
"The Promise of Legal Pot," The New Republic, November 27, 2017
Kirkus Review, October 10, 2017
Publisher's Weekly, October 9, 2017
MEDIA APPEARANCES:
“Why the Republican Cannabis Legalization Bill Could Have Better Odds Than Democratic Proposals,” The Outlaw Report, November 18, 2021
“Is Marijuana Legalization Inevitable in the US?” CNBC News, January 3, 2021
“Cannabis in the USA: An illegal tax-paying business,” BBC News, December 18, 2020
“BU Law invites scholars to discuss marijuana law in US, plans for future,” The Daily Free Press, November 19, 2020
“This Election, a Divided America Stands United on One Topic,” The New York Times, November 5, 2020
Recreational Revolution, “Episode 8: Social Justice Weed,” Boston Herald Radio, May 11, 2019
“Legalising Cannabis,” Rear Vision, Australian Public Radio, April 14, 2019
“Reefer, Managed: The History of Cannabis Criminalization,” The Brian Lehrer Show, April 8, 2019
“The Pot Law Pendulum,” Washington History Seminar, December 3, 2018
"The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America," The Arik Korman Show, August 16, 2018
"In 'Grass Roots,' A History of Marijuana in America," Colorado Public Radio, April 9, 2018
"America's History of Marijuana," KPFA's Letters and Politics, April 2, 2018
Panel: "Pot, Fast Horses, and Cocaine Cowboys: Drugs in America," Virginia Festival of the Book, March 22, 2018
Panel: "Growing Hemp in Virginia: Then and Now," Virginia Festival of the Book, March 21, 2018
"The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana," Radio New Zealand, February 21, 2018
Crime Beat Radio, February 8, 2018
CSPAN2's BookTV, February 7, 2018 (featured appearance at the Tattered Cover in Denver, CO!)
Town Hall Seattle Civics Series, January 31, 2018 (you can watch the video of this talk here)
Politics and Prose, Washington, DC, January 18, 2018
"From Just Say No to yes, please," Weed Week Podcast, January 22, 2018
"The Paul Harris Show," KTRS St. Louis, January 10, 2018
"Marijuana: High and Low and High Again in U.S. History," JPR Jefferson Public Radio, January 9, 2018
"The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America," WAMC Northeast Public Radio, January 4, 2018
"California: Legalizing Marijuana," CBS News, January 1, 2018
"A Historical Look at the Fight Over Marijuana Legalization in the US," Wisconsin Public Radio, December 18, 2017
"Will America legalize recreational pot?" Smerconish, CNN, December 16, 2017
“All Hopped Up: Drugs in America,” BackStory with the American History Guys, NPR, May 20, 2016
“Hooked: Illegal Drugs: Marijuana,” History Channel 2, 2014
PODCAST APPEARANCES:
“Brownie Angels,” Comfortably Hungry, 2 May 2024
“Marie Nyswander,” Lost Women of Science, Season 5, March/April 2023
“The Growing Legalisation of Marijuana in the U.S.,” BBC Americast, December 2, 2022
“A Historical and Modern View of Marijuana, Legislating Morality, and How Grassroots Organizations Impact Federal Policy,” Sex, Drugs, and Jesus, October 27, 2022
“Interview with Emily Dufton,” High on Home Grown, October 5, 2021
“NORML and the Parent Movement, Weed's Long, Strange Trip to Just Say No with Emily Dufton,” Choose Your Struggle, July 23, 2021
“Mr. Marijuana and the Drug Czar,” One Year, July 15, 2021
“Who Is Big Weed?” Now This News, April 20, 2021
“Chapter 5: Almost Legal,” The Syndicate, September 1, 2020
“Pot’s Benevolent Cousin,” Trace Material, April 21, 2020
“Episode 4: The Recent History of Cannabis in America, 1970s-Present, with Emily Dufton,” The Green Repeal, October 21, 2019
“Interview: Emily Dufton, Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America,” New Books Network, August 30, 2019
On Something: Life After Legalization, “Episode 1: Why Was Weed Illegal Anyway?” Colorado Public Radio, June 18, 2019
“Episode 163,” Past Present Podcast, January 21, 2019
AskHistorians Podcast, March 2, 2018
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