Cannabis cultivation in the United States

World Wide Weed: Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and its Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 145-161

  Weisheit, Ralph A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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