I started reporting for my high school newspaper in 1988 at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Pennsylvania. A few years later, I landed a job writing and shooting photos for High Times Magazine in New York City. Despite a brief and horrible foray as director of public relations there, I wrote dozens of articles covering government complicity in the drug trade, clandestine cannabis operations, book and record reviews, the evolution of medical marijuana, a media column, and interviews with Noam Chomsky and Tony Serra.

In 2007, I visited the groovy offices of Revista Cáñamo in Barcelona and was hired to write about the evolving cannabis scenes in Colorado, California, Las Vegas, Seattle, Mexico, Jamaica, and South Africa. Those articles were translated into Spanish and published exclusively in their print magazine.

Also included are articles, interviews, and reports from Cannabis Now, Vice, Global Ganja Report, Grindline, Psyche!, Quantum 9, Ojai Valley News, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Humboldt State University.

This book is for colleges, cannabis dispensaries, independent bookstores, and anyone who appreciates the voices of courageous people devoted to harm reduction, botanical literacy, peace, and art.