Romancing Mary Jane A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijuana Grower

by Poole, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781550547498
• ISBN10: 1550547496
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-18
• Publisher: Greystone Books

Summary

After many years as a successful documentary film producer and director, Michael Poolefound himself suffering from serious bumout. Retreating from the demands of the city to a waterfront acreage on British Columbia's idyllic Sunshine Coast, he threw himself into wholesome toil: the cultivation of marijuana. Romancing Mary Janeis an intimate, funny and eye-opening depiction of ten months in the life of a neophyte marijuana grower. It is also an entertaining examination of cannabis culture. As he plants and cultivates his crop in the company of hummingbirds, woodpeckers, eagles, biting flies and a bear who shows signs of reefer madness, Pooleruminates on many things: the age-old use of mind-altering drugs; the wrong-headedness of drug laws; the medical use of pot; the genetic diversity of the lovely marijuana plant. Pooleembarked on this life of crime with the idea that he'd make a bundle, live like a lord and loll away the winters on tropical beaches. Things didn't work out quite that way. But what he discovers instead, on a mountaintop overlooking the deep blue water of the Strait of Georgia, is a reconnection to landscape, weather and the turning of the seasonsónot to mention some of the best pot he has ever smoked.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Breaking Ground	p. 5
Present at the Creation	p. 16
The Planting Moon	p. 31
Cosmic Winds	p. 45
Hazards of the Law	p. 60
Bummers and Benders	p. 77
Green Genes	p. 90
Profits and Lies	p. 111
Riding the Boxcars	p. 132
All in the Line of Duty	p. 157
Doing the Gazelle	p. 170
Under the Lights	p. 190
Dealing in Paranoia	p. 211
A Harvest of Troubles	p. 228
Autumn Dreams	p. 236
Afterword	p. 244
The Mythology of Marijuana	p. 245
What to Do if You Are Busted	p. 250
Notes	p. 253
Acknowledgements	p. 257
Table of Contents provided by Rittenhouse. All Rights Reserved.