Reefer Madness

Reefer Madness is a book I chose to read for school. Initially I chose this book for the oh-so catchy title, but then I realized that it's written by Eric Schlosser who is the also the author of another book that I love called Fast Food Nation. Anyways Reefer Madness was not only about reefer and madness, but it was also about pornography, illegal immigrants, and the big bad corporations. The atrocities of the government. etc.

It's divided into a few large essays with embedded mini-tangents on the subject of the essay. The first section is on marijuana, the second section is on the injustices of strawberry farms in California employing illegals, the third section is on the growth of the pornography industry, the fourth is on the general black market, and the afterword goes back to reefer. So the book opens and closes with the title. All four of these subjects are very interesting and they relate to Issues in that we talked about drug policies, we talked about........well, we've talked about drug policy therefore the book is relevant.

Regardless of what we have or haven't gone over in class the book was very relevant to me and I was interested in all of the topics and they were all well written and well researched.