Memoirs of the Legendary Cannabis Cowboy - Paperback

Memoirs of the Legendary CANNABIS COWBOY is an action packed story about the adventures of Robert G. Schmidt as a marijuana smuggler in the 70's and 80's and then as the head proprietor of Genesis 1:29, a medical cannabis dispensary in northern California. With a family history of "rum runners" that used wooden speed boats to bring Canadian booze into Prohibition era America, Robert's career begins with helping draft dodgers escape the Vietnam war and soon escalates into international excitement and danger smuggling tons of marijuana. The riches gained during high-flying early years are lost to betrayal and prison. After a time in the grip of drug and alcohol abuse romance brings stability that is soon interrupted by a new law that allows medical cannabis use in California. Ex-marijuana smuggler Robert establishes Genesis 1:29 to grow and distribute medical cannabis and for a time business booms. Expansion of growing operations to a ranch in Sebastopol leads to a DEA raid on September 12, 2002