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A 6 page review which examines the book’s purpose, the author’s credentials, considers its intended audience, which of the three major theoretical perspective of sociology the author favors, and proposed solutions to reduce this social problem. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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on whatever will generate a tidy profit. Everything in a consumer economy can be reduced to a law of supply and demand, and when something like marijuana is in
short supply because of government restrictions upon its cultivation and sale, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that for anyone willing to oppose system regulations in order
to satisfy a growing demand, there will be high profitability. While the common market of public consumption receives most of the media attention, there has always been a far
more lucrative black market operating beneath the surface of American society that few know about. Journalist Eric Schlosser has attempted to remedy that calculated oversight in his 300+ page
text, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, which was published by Houghton Mifflin in May of 2003. The purpose of this text
is simple - to examine "the legal and economic consequences of marijuana use in the United States (Schlosser, 2003, p. 8). The book is subdivided into three seemingly unrelated
sections that are comprised of journalistic essays entitled "Reefer Madness," "In the Strawberry Fields," and "An Empire of the Obscene." According to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these
three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that permeates all of American society. It is the U.S. reliance upon the free market that connects all of the
many and diverse cultures and subcultures that have historically existed. As Schlosser demonstrates, the markets of a trio of industries - marijuana, strawberries, and pornography - is responsible for
up to $1 trillion of illegal revenues each year. In the first essay, Schlosser not only provides some compelling economic and legal statistics, but also offers an explanation as
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