Foreword / by Representative Jared Huffman -- Introduction -- part one. Growing problems -- Cannabis agriculture in California : the environmental consequences of prohibition / Anthony Silvaggio -- Ecological impacts across the landscape : trespass marijuana cultivation on western public lands / Greta M. Wengert, Mourad W. Gabriel, J. Mark Higley, and Craig Thompson -- Effects of illegal marijuana cultivation on wildlife : pesticide exposure in a native carnivore and consequences for the species' survival / Craig Thompson, Mourad W. Gabriel, Greta M. Wengert, and J. Mark Higley -- The marijuana green rush Is anything but green : a report from the Hoopa tribal lands / J. Mark Higley, Greta M. Wengert, Dawn M. Blake, and Mourad W. Gabriel -- Managers' perceptions of illegal marijuana cultivation on US federal lands / Jeff Rose, Matthew T.J. Brownlee, and Kelly S. Bricker -- part two. Downwind consequences -- Mission Croy Road : gunmen, a K9, and a pack mule named Stanley / John Nores Jr. -- Double bind : the intractability of undocumented immigrant trespass marijuana grow operations in US national forests / Amos Irwin -- Southern exposure : marijuana and labor in the Appalachians / Hawes Spencer and Char Miller -- part three. Regional varieties -- Low, slow, and in control : Colorado's experiment with legalized recreational marijuana / Courtenay W. Dawn -- Legalized, regulated, and taxed : how Oregon's marijuana measure went mainstream / Anthony Johnson -- "This is democracy held hostage" : cannabis in the capital / Karen D. August and Char Miller -- Cannabis legalization in California : a long and winding road / Amanda Reiman -- Afterword : reading the tea leaves / Char Miller and Anthony Silvaggio.