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Title: Three unrelated articles in one book
Review: Let me start by saying I thought Fast Food Nation was great. Reefer Madness ("RM") falls far short of that standard, though.In essence, RM is a collection of what should really be three magazine articles. Further, some examples/stories are stretched out so long that it seems that the author is just trying to fill up space.For example, the longest section of the book is supposedly about the Porn industry. RM spends so much time on the story of a particular Porn businessperson that the book seems more like a bio of his life than a study of the underground Porn economy.RM claims to be about the huge underground/black market economy, but, the three sections (pot, migrant workers & Porn) seem largely unconnected. The book has no cohesive thesis or point.On the plus side, the author is a skilled storyteller and he does a good job of telling the stories of the players in the different industries.
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