The Truth About Professional Pot Dealers

A few years ago, curious about the rapidly advancing push for legalization, I persuaded my then-employer, the Atlantic, to let me enroll in a new pot-growing trade school in Oakland and write about the experience. It was illuminating in ways I hadn’t imagined. I’ll admit that my assumption about the type of people I was going to encounter tracked pretty closely with what Brooks imagines such people to be like. But as I wrote in the piece, these budding marijuana dealers (sorry, couldn’t help myself) were nothing of the sort.