Nick's Non-fiction

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Eric Schlosser turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays, pot, porn, and illegal immigrants, this book shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades. He also draws compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, and how big business learns and profits from the underground. Reefer Madness is a powerful investigation that illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow. Subscribe, Share, Mobile links & Time-stamps below! 0:00 Introduction 5:45 About the Author 7:30 Ch1: Reefer Madness 25:50 Ch2: In the Strawberry Fields 33:10 Ch3: Rise of an Empire 39:30 Ch4: Fall of an Empire 48:15 Ch5: Out of the