Humboldt: Life on America’s Marijuana Frontier
By Emily Brady
GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING
Pot-growing hippies who fled San Francisco for Northern California’s rural Humboldt County are victims of their own success in this multigenerational epic about the pathologies and paradoxes of the nation’s biggest weed-based economy, and how a growers’ utopia devolved into paranoia and violence. It’s an empathetic but unflinching portrait of a community caught in the legalization movement’s crosswinds.
This review originally appeared in our July/August issue of Mother Jones.
