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The Weed Runners

Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade

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Make no mistake! The US government’s 100-year-old war on marijuana isn’t over. Some 20 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges, so far. The American marijuana industry remains underground, where modern-day moonshiners - who view themselves as tomorrow’s Johnnie Walkers - continue to take immeasurable personal risks to fulfill America’s incessant demand for weed.

Drawing on unparalleled access to sources ranging from lawyers to cannabis club owners, from outlaw cultivators to industry entrepreneurs, The Weed Runners is both journalistic expose and an adventure story.

©2013 Nicholas Schou (P)2020 Mark Alan Miller Law Social Sciences
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At only six hours, the Weed Runners nevertheless feels like a very long book. The author seemed determined to include every detail he experienced or heard about, even at the expense of being repetitious. This was compounded by the narrator, Fred Greenspan, who, although performing with a pleasant sounding voice and good modulation, maintained a constant timbre, soothing and near coma inducing which seemed to just drone on and on. A great pity because the book is packed with anecdotes about the way in which the so called medical marijuana laws were applied, and the people who profited, or otherwise, from them in the early years. Sometimes funny, often outrageous, this is a book to ingest in little pieces, perhaps a chapter at a time, not listened to in one continuous dive.

This book was a free download from the Audible Plus programme. thank you, Audible. Would I recommend it? Oh, yes, because of the curious characters encountered, the weird ways that different laws clashed and were applied, totally schizophrenic and ignoring the actual needs of those people who could really benefit from the medical relief which the drug provides. It's all about money.

"It's like the wild Wild West out there."

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very enjoyable to listen to. informative and I like the characters I'm the book. Well written

Great read

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