Stoned Again: The High Times and Strange Life of a Drugs Correspondent

In Stoned Again Mike Sager refers to himself as a drugs correspondent but thats legitimately humble smoke that belies whats really going on here. While theres plenty of weed heroin shrooms and crack (not to mention plenty of Ricky James bitch) in these pages what is most evident on every page is the remarkable reporting empathy craftsmanship and storytelling that have rightly placed Mike Sager among the journalistic legends of our time. --Maximillian Potter author Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the Worlds Greatest Wine From the brutal days and nights of life inside a crack gang in Los Angeles to the artistic miseries of young heroin addicts on the ultra-hip lower east side of New York; from the Sonoran desert where Carlos Castaneda made his earliest shamanic discoveries to the cell at Folsom Prison where the author first encountered the King of Funk Rick James to the modest headquarters of the Church of Realized Fantasies where the Pope of Pot presided over the first highly organized marijuana delivery service Stoned Again: The High Times and Strange Life of a Drugs Reporter takes you to places you didnt necessarily want to go on your own. But with Sager as your guide you cant wait to head to the next destination. Sager has been called the Beat poet of American journalism that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality. Nowhere is that skill more in evidence than when he writes about the seamier sides of life. Kirkus Reviews called him Virgil in the modern American inferno. Mike Sager is a journalistic icon and a literary force. A whole generation of writers has been shaped and guided by his work. This is a seminal collection by a master of the form. --Wil S. Hylton author Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II