Jim HightJim Hight had written for dozens of newspapers and magazines in Los Angeles and Boston before he moved to rural Humboldt County, California, in 1996 as the staff writer for North Coast Journal. The city boy was intrigued and fascinated by his new subects-loggers and forest defenders, fishermen and scientists, ranchers and dairy farmers, small-town mayors and county sheriffs, tribal healers and cannabis growers. His writing delighted readers, and he won an environmental and agricultural reporting award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association.But Hight had moved to cannabis-friendly Humboldt at the worst time for his recovery from marijuana addiction-and the best time for this novel, as things would turn out. Read More Read Less