Since the plant may very well see broad legalization in the next few years, it seemed a good time to learn more about it. But this book is too dry and too repetitive to have been hugely useful. And it's very narrowly focused on growing in a small area. Some clever tricks and interesting folks in that area, but the stories just skate across the surface, and nobody really stands out.

Still, I leaned a few things about the lack of genetic diversity in food supply. And it will be very interesting to see what laws do about cultivation, and how people react. A few years after legalization, will people be buying perfectly uniform cigarettes from multinationals? Will there be boutiques, like local brewpubs? Will people grow their own, like they do with tomatoes and peppers now, just for fun or to stay close to the land?

The value of this book may be that in 15 years people can look back and see want people thought during a time when views and laws were going through massive change.