Just Say Yes-Tenth Anniversary Edition

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Just Say Yes</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> perhaps the first marijuana memoir ever published is a positive account of long-term cannabis use. With ruthless honesty and deadpan humor the author observes the effect of weed upon every aspect of her life: marriage motherhood friendship work sport sex. As John Updike wrote about Hiller's short story collection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Skin</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> this is good brave and joyful writing. Ten years after its first publication the updated edition of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Just Say Yes</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> addresses the changing status of cannabis in America and includes a foreword by Steve DeAngelo.</span></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This funny wry and very candid memoir purports to be a Confession of an American Pot-Smoker but is really a cultural/personal history of the past fifty years. The narrative progresses backward and not only the past but innocence itself is recaptured.                 </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Phillip Lopate Nonfiction Director MFA Writing Program Columbia University </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Likely to loosen up fellow smokers while adding a personal take to the public discussion of cannabis. -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brilliant important and beautifully written.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>           -Betsy Prioleau author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Seductress </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Swoon</em></p>