Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground, Eric Schlosser antiquarian warmth and remarkable incisiveness creates

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Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground, Eric Schlosser antiquarian warmth and remarkable incisiveness createsIn Reefer Madness, the best selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent perhaps more of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise. Eric Schlosser charts this growth, and finds its roots in the nexus of ingenuity, greed, idealism, and hypocrisy