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The Bolshevik Brew -- favorite drink of Communists. Packs a punch like a Moscow mule.

Oh boy! Rotgut Russian, the Communist cocktail. I really need to talk with Svetlana about sobering up and getting into AA.

I wrote nine marijuana short stories in the late '90s. In 2000 I had them printed up down in Kansas City (2,500 copies). Took me about six years to sell them. Met some nice people, went to some cool festivals.

So it's pretty crazy how I did the Ganja Tales screenplay. I pulled three stories out of my Ganja Tales short story volume and wove them into the larger narrative of a 100-page drama, also called Ganja Tales. What do you do when you're on a road trip? You tell stories. So the Ganja Tales screenplay is a road trip cannabis healing story in which the characters tell their own personal marijuana stories as they all roll down the road. In short, it's stories imbedded within a story. Yes, eyes glaze over when I pitch it!