Super-Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana

Marijuana, illegal in the US since 1937, has grown into over 2000 varieties thanks to an underground world of breeders, dealers, and smokers. Since 1996, California's legalized medical marijuana legislation has pushed the decentralized, lawless world closer to the corporate world of business, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals. Super-Charged follows the people who transformed marijuana, including former Silicon Valley software entrepreneur, third-generation Humboldt growers, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, and famous marijuana personality Jorge Cervantes. Jim Rendon takes readers behind the scenes into the homes and grow operations of these committed, quality-obsessed practitioners in the international underground industry. However, these pioneers may soon find themselves out of business due to the drug's growing mainstream acceptance.

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