For her first book, journalist Emily Brady took the unprecedented step of immersing herself in the secretive and sometimes dangerous heartland of America's marijuana industry. In "Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier," Brady reports on her time in the Northern California counties known as The Emerald Triangle, where the world's most premium, high-grade pot is grown. Brady told Bookish about the "cannasseurs" who make cannabis their livelihood and passion, about what a million-dollar field of 700 marijuana plants looks and smells like, what the show "Weeds" gets wrong, the most out-there strains of ganja and why our country has a flawed, "confused relationship" with marijuana.
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