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Bestselling author Michael Konik (The Man with the $100,000 Breasts<\/a>; Ella in Europe; The Smart Money<\/i>) abstained from using, or even trying, marijuana until he was nearly 40. Then he went to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

No longer able to dismiss pot as an herbal evil, he began to celebrate its salutary effects. Seven years later, Konik has penned a provocative and intelligent examination of America’s most politically potent plant.<\/p>\n

Reefer Gladness: Stories, Essays, and Riffs on Marijuana<\/i> explores this emotionally charged subject through an innovative lens. It’s an entertaining, elegant, and consistently heady study of a simple weed with the power to transform American society.<\/p>\n

Konik’s pungent prose provides a literary contact high. His vivid characters, the regular (and irregular) people from every stratum of society who make marijuana a part of their lives, blaze off the page. Reefer Gladness<\/i> is nonfiction and fiction, humorous and serious, a fascinating hybrid of reality and imagination. It’s a great read\u00a0—\u00a0whether or not you enjoy marijuana.<\/p>\n

Click here to read an excerpt from\u00a0Reefer Gladness<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

About The Author(s)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
A former professional sports gambler and television poker commentator, Michael Konik<\/strong> once earned the honorific \u201cDean of the World\u2019s Gambling Writers.\u201d Konik is the best-selling author of acclaimed books about risk and reward, including Man With the $100,000 Breasts<\/em><\/a>, Telling Lies and Getting Paid<\/em><\/a>, The Smart Money<\/em>, plus Nice Shot, Mr. Nicklaus<\/em><\/a>, the novel Becoming Bobby<\/em><\/a>, and many more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Explores this emotionally charged subject through the innovative lens of a brilliant writer who smoked his first joint at age 38. It\u2019s an entertaining, elegant, and consistently heady study of a simple weed with the power to transform American society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[53,1917,1918,378],"product_tag":[167,185,149,156,155,554],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}