{"id":448,"date":"2014-09-18T14:32:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.eckerd.edu\/?p=347"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:09:23","slug":"author-to-discuss-the-new-pot-barons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/author-to-discuss-the-new-pot-barons\/","title":{"rendered":"Author to discuss &#8216;The New Pot Barons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Tony Dokoupil, a senior writer for NBC News and author of a critically acclaimed memoir about his pot-smuggling father, will discuss the emerging business of legal marijuana during an appearance at Miller Auditorum at 7 p.m. Oct. 16. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/11\/books\/review\/the-last-pirate-by-tony-dokoupil-and-more.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u00a0<\/a>has called Dokoupil\u2019s book, The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana (Doubleday, April 2014), \u201can exuberant memoir about the history of the American drug economy, the ambitions and failures of politicians and outlaws, fathers and sons. \u201c The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/review-the-last-pirate-a-father-his-son-and-the-golden-age-of-marijuana-by-tony-dokoupil\/2014\/05\/02\/655a38de-c02e-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0described it as \u201ca meticulously researched history of America\u2019s rocky relationship with marijuana\u201d with \u201cthe kind of narrative that screams out to be adapted into a gritty, layered cable TV drama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dokoupil will discuss the book and his recent work \u00a0for NBC News reporting on the entrepreneurs who are growing and distributing legal marijuana during his talk, \u00a0<em>The New Pot Barons: They&#8217;re Young, Well Educated, Politically Savvy \u2014 and Trying to Get Rich Making Marijuana Legit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A former senior writer for\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Daily Beast<\/em>, Dokoupil\u2019s reporting crosses NBC platforms, including Dateline, the Today Show and Nightly News. He received his B.B.A. summa cum laude from George Washington University, where he graduated first in his class, and a masters degree in American Studies from Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dokoupil&#8217;s Eckerd presentation will take place less than three weeks before Florida voters consider amending the state Constitution to legalize medical marijuana and Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia voters consider broader marijuana legalization.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dokoupil\u2019s father smuggled marijuana for decades, spanning the Nixon and Reagan administrations. He \u201cbecame a partner in what his son describes as the biggest East Coast dope ring of the Reagan years, smuggling marijuana into the U.S.,\u201d according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/03\/31\/297145984\/son-of-a-secret-smuggler-digs-up-the-truth-about-his-dad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u2019s Fresh Air<\/a>. For the book, Dokoupil \u201ccombed through court documents and newspaper files and interviewed Drug Enforcement Administration agents who investigated the case, as well as more than a dozen smugglers and dealers, including his own father,\u201d according to NPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Dokoupil, a senior writer for NBC News and author of a critically acclaimed memoir about his pot-smuggling father, will discuss the emerging business of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-events"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Author to discuss &#039;The New Pot Barons&#039; - 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