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This anthology features long-form features, interviews, op eds, documentary excerpts, book reviews, academic writing, and photographs from High Times, Cannabis Now, Revista Cañamo, Vice, Global Ganja Report, Humboldt State University, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice\u003cbr\u003eJohn Veit's work moves fluidly from US stories, examining the Ku Klux Klan, the prison-industrial complex, cannabis criminalization, and law-enforcement corruption, to international reporting from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. Across these geographies, the book reveals how drug wars operate as systems of segregation, severing people from land, culture, and traditional plant knowledge.\u003cbr\u003eForegrounding voices routinely excluded from policy debates, indigenous farmers, political dissidents, journalists, activists, and those living under prohibition, Botanical Apartheid resists simple reform narratives. 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