Mel Frank [aka James Goodwin], is the co-author, along with Ed Rosenthal, of the 1974 book, The Marijuana Grower’s Indoor/Outdoor Guide, and its expanded 1978 edition, Marijuana Grower’s Guide Deluxe. These two seminal tomes taught countless amateur botanists how to cultivate cannabis and fueled the homegrown revolution of the ‘70s and ‘80s in the United States. As a breeder, he developed the varieties Afghani # 1 and Durban Poison, which, along with Haze, Hindu Kush, and Skunk #1 from other California breeders, became the basis for the commercial seed industry in Amsterdam. He remains one of the world’s foremost experts regarding the plant. He is also a great photographer whose gallery exhi
I started doing drugs when I was a baby. I picked up a nicotine habit when I was a zygote, then a few months after my birth, I started hitting the barbiturates. My mother tells the story like this: I cried a lot, more than most. It was a raw deal, swapping out warm, amniotic bliss for the sights and sounds of living. She took me to the doctor and explained what was wrong with me. I was a malcontent, easily disturbed. He gave her a script for Phenobarbital. She mushed it in with my Gerber’s and fed it to me with a spoon. It was the sixties, what are you gonna do? There are pictures, faded Kodak color prints, and there I am, a babe in the arms of this beautiful young woman, not a single burden
Gene settles into his new life as a janitor, and the unexpected appearance of a 700-foot-tall monster in Japan causes the crew to question its origins. ------------------------------ When I returned to work after Thanksgiving weekend, word was going around that I wasn’t exactly the Paul Bunyan of the cleaning industry that they had hoped I was going to be. My two-hour lunches had done a lot to sow unrest among the staff. Since he couldn’t fire me, Mealy, the foreman, decided to keep me working with him. He was my direct superior now. From here on I’d be smelling his stink more than I smelled any other. For the first couple of days he was one of these “do-what-I-say-and-we’ll-get-along-great”
