Larger	Reefer Madness : Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Author: Eric Schlosser
	Book Information Publisher: Mariner Books Book Type: Paperback Rating: 37 ISBN-13: 9780618446704 - ISBN-10: 0618446702 Publication Date: 4/1/2004 Pages: 352 Book Reviews

America"s black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids" nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation 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 — Eric Schlosser 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 techonology 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.