Guardian Unlimited | With pot and porn outstripping corn, America's black economy is flying high
A new book by Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation (ranked 87th with Amazon), investigates the shadow economy of the US -- pot, pornography, and immigrant labor. The book, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labour in the American Black Market is sure to cause a stir...especially after the success of his first book.
"While the nation's largest legal cash crop, corn, produces about $19 billion in revenue, "plausible" estimates for the value of marijuana crops reach $25 billion. Steve White, a former coordinator for the DEA cannabis eradication program, estimates that the drug is now the country's largest cash crop."
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