By Alfred Ryan Nerz
Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated writer, journalist, and television manufacturer. He’s additionally an established marijuana fanatic who has made it his undertaking to higher comprehend America’s long-standing love-hate dating with our favourite (sometimes) unlawful drug. His cross-country research began sensibly adequate: taking sessions at a hashish university, placing out with a guy who will get 300 pre-rolled joints per 30 days from the government, and vacationing the world’s greatest clinical marijuana dispensary. yet after connecting with a mysterious buddy of a pal, his trip took an unforeseen flip and he chanced on himself embedded with one of many greatest growers and buyers at the West Coast. He speedy remodeled from first rate journalist into an underworld apprentice—surrounded through pit bulls, unique medicinal drugs, beanbags jam-packed with funds, and trunks packed with weed. yet whereas suffering to navigate the eccentric characters and rampant paranoia of the black marketplace, he maintained sufficient equanimity to discover a few important questions: Is marijuana hurting or assisting us? How is it affecting our lungs, our brains, and our goals? Is it actually addictive, and if this is the case, are too many people depending on it? may still we legalize it? Does he have to hand over? As exciting because it is illuminating, Marijuanamerica is one man’s try and humanize the myriad hot-button issues surrounding the nation’s worst-kept secret—our obsession with weed—while studying whatever approximately himself alongside the way.
Advance compliment for Marijuanamerica
“This publication is so pleasing, i need to roll it up and smoke it. Ryan Nerz takes us on a delightfully bizarre and academic trip that incorporates crazed pharmacists, a man named Buddha Cheese, and an interstate street journey with a trunk packed with pot.”
—A. J. Jacobs, writer of The 12 months of dwelling Biblically
“Marijuanamerica has all of it: risk, suspense, nuts-and-bolts reportage, laugh-out-loud discussion, gritty characters, sociological dissection, and hella deep suggestions. Nerz has expertise to burn; this can be participatory journalism at its finest.”
—Davy Rothbart, writer of My center Is an Idiot, author of Found Magazine, widespread contributor to This American Life
“What an extended, unusual journey it's been for Ryan Nerz, whose wild stories and antics are the stuff stoner lore is made up of. yet in how a ways Marijuana has come, he additionally poses the cruel questions each stoner unavoidably asks. Ryan's trip is one worthy taking.”
—Shirley Halperin[/i], writer of Pot Culture
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