Pot, Inc inside medical marijuana, America's most outlaw industry

"Greg Campbell is just about the last person you'd suspect of growing pot in his basement. A few ill-fated experiences in college revealed he was a terrible stoner, and in the years since, he's not given the green stuff another thought. But his attitude changed when medical marijuana...

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Main Author: Campbell, Greg.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Sterling, c2012.
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Summary: "Greg Campbell is just about the last person you'd suspect of growing pot in his basement. A few ill-fated experiences in college revealed he was a terrible stoner, and in the years since, he's not given the green stuff another thought. But his attitude changed when medical marijuana was legalized in his home state of Colorado in 2009. It set off a tsunami activity that was viewed by opposing camps as either Nirvana or the Apocalypse. Dispensaries popped up overnight, and as Greg watched the flurry, he thought: Why not me? POT OF GOLD chronicles Greg's venture into ganjapreneurealism. Along the way, he learn not only how to grow pot, but he also gained an invaluable education into the truth about marijuana's value as a medicine. Traveling from California's famed Humbolt County to the first-annual Medical Marijuana Education Expo to Oklahoma (where a man was sentenced to 93 years for growing marijuana to treat chronic arthritis), Greg unearths ignorance about pot's centuries-old therapeutic value (an ignorance the government is desperate to maintain) as well as his own personal connection to its medicinal value. "--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: xxvi, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-262).
ISBN: 9781402779251 (hardcover)
1402779259 (hardcover)
Author Notes: GREG CAMPBELL is the author of Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History (a Denver Post , Globe & Mail , and Library Journal bestseller), Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones (the source material for the Leonardo DiCaprio movie of the same name), and The Road to Kosovo: A Balkan Diary. Campbell is also an award-winning journalist whose his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal Magazine , The Economist , The San Francisco Times , Paris Match , and The Christian Science Monitor , among others. He lives in Fort Collins, CO.