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Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market | Eric Schlosser
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Americas black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqu video, or pay our kids nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays pot, porn, and illegal immigrants Eric Schlosser shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades. He also draws compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new techonology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, and how big business learns and profits from the underground. Reefer Madness is a powerful investigation that illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.
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Ajbsimpson
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Mehso-so

The title is a little misleading. It's three essays about the black market. The essay on pot was a little dated but the essay on pornography was pretty interesting.

ptkpepe98 Have you read/seen Freakonomics? All about unintended consequences. It's funny, but it's not.🤔 7y
Ajbsimpson I've both read and watched it. I loved it.😀 7y
BethM If you like that try Gang Leader for a Day. 7y
Ajbsimpson Sounds interesting. Thanks. 7y
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Krisjericho
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I can't stop laughing. 😂 I grabbed the first three books on my shelves that I saw for the #orangecovers prompt, and it created this hilarious accidental #spinepoetry. #photoadaynov16 Wild
Reefer madness
Ain't nobody's business if you do

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