Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction:

Who I Am and What I Do and Do Not Care About

CHAPTER 1

Decriminalization Versus Commercialization

Have We Been Played?

CHAPTER 2

The Evolution of a Plant

God Didn’t Make This Stuff

CHAPTER 3

The Lobby

Where the Gold’s At!

CHAPTER 4

Social Justice

That’s What This Is All About, Man!

CHAPTER 5

Concentrates

710 Is the New

CHAPTER 6

Vaping

Get High Like a Ninja!

CHAPTER 7

Edibles

Brownies? That’s so 1970s!

CHAPTER 8

Weed and the Environment

There Is Nothing “Green” About This Stuff

CHAPTER 9

Law Enforcement

What’s Johnny Law Saying?

CHAPTER 10

Medical Marijuana

Way More Complex Than Either Side Is Telling You

CHAPTER 11

In a Perfect World

Proposed Laws and Their Insanity Versus Rational Changes

CHAPTER 12

The Arguments and the Rebuttals

How to Respond to What the Seventeen-Year-Olds Throw at You

CHAPTER 13

Addiction and Recovery

Yeah, They Are Real Things

Afterword:

It’s Time We Started Really Paying Attention to This Weed “Experiment” in Colorado

Resources

Glossary

About the Author