Reefenue: Cannabis and the Cash

A New Novel with a Mission Reefenue is a novel with surprising and reasonable conclusions about marijuana in our society through imagining what it would be like to have it as a mainstream legal commodity instead of a very limited or forbidden product in the hands of the mafia where its dangers in this book and in real life are not chemical but rather those of distribution in the hands of powerful thugs for whom murder is a mere inconvenience for those who interfere with material profits. The characters are drawn with a realism that makes their values humor shortcomings and even breathing part of the readers journey through the books 370 pages. Each persona is plausible down to his or her speech patterns personal idioms and motives right down to the romance between Morty and Hank (Henrietta). The villainous Maestro conveys a picture of evil that makes any bad guys from Ian Fleming look like Mr. Rogers. The conflict at times becomes a wee bit grinding for readers who want simply to get on with it but Mr. Harrington is not what I would call a terse writer with a sense of verbal economy. His scenarios paint characters and their predicaments in sensory ways with elaborate detail and plausible extensive dialogue. The principal message from the book is that marijuana should not be something restricted by government interference. I think of prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s and early 1930s and am convinced that many similar horrors of crime from that era could be diminished or eliminated by making pot as legal as cigarettes. Mr. Harrington is a skilled writer with a mission one that he renders quite convincingly in his novel.John BolingerLegal WeedLaws have changed.In many parts of the country it isnt a crime to smoke a joint.Millions and millions of dollars are being made through the legalization of recreational marijuana.Many more millions of dollars are being made through legal medicinal marijuana. There has to be a system for the taxes accrued from all of this profit on legal weed to begeared toward the benefit of all of our society.Reefenue: Cannabis and the Cashpresents a means to that end through......HappenstanceThe abduction of a young brilliant mechanical engineer who happened to be a pot-head in his pursuit of the finest reefer in the world leads to an adventure with potentially dire consequences.An unlikely crew assembles in an effort to thwart a diabolical sinister murderous criminal mastermindin his scheme to take political and financial control over the booming new marijuana legalization.The Triangle Thinkers have other things in mind.