The Pope of Pot

<p><em style=font-weight: bolder>The Pope of Pot: And Other True Stories of Marijuana and Related High Jinks</em> <strong>is a pocket collection by the award-winning journalist (and former <em>Rolling Stone</em> drugs correspondent) Mike Sager highlighting his dispatches from the cannabis underground.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In When Should a Man Stop Smoking Weed? Sager looks back on a half-century of pot smoking starting on a humid night in summer at age 12. Marijuana has served as a great equalizer a frequent teacher and a pleasant companion he writes leading me places I would never have otherwise gone.</p><p> </p><p>The Pope of Pot founded the nation's first marijuana delivery service in New York City with a corps of bicycle messengers all of them covered by a company dental plan. Meet the marijuana pope and his faithful followers at the Church of Realized Fantasies. Too bad the cops didn't think he was so amusing.</p><p> </p><p>In Dab Artists we meet the artesian crafters who occupied the outlaw edge of the vaping boom in the early days of legal weed. Cool but nerdy deliberately unkempt these self-taught Heisenbergs of hash oil gathered for the Secret Cup Finals in Las Vegas.</p><p> </p><p>In The Pot Doctor Will See You Now we meet Don Davidson MD a pioneer of online medical marijuana recommendations. Over several years Dr. D. and his crew of doctors issued hundreds of thousands of weed licenses. A long and jangled day with the hardest working doctor in the marijuana business.</p><p> </p><p>And in Meeting the Ghost of Christmas Future Sager is sent by <em>Rolling Stone</em> to Woody Creek CO to aid his colleague the legendary Hunter S. Thompson. Busted for possession of illegal drugs HST faces a fifty-year prison sentence. The next three weeks will teach at least one of them lessons to last a lifetime.</p><p> </p><p> </p>