Capone of Cannabis Available At Barnes and Noble

Capone of Cannabis is a true-crime memoir from inside Michigan’s first dispensary battlefield—where raids replaced regulation, “task forces” replaced oversight, and the same people who lost at the ballot box found new ways to punish the winners. What follows is a relentless chain of surveillance, informants, and political vendettas that turns a medical movement into a hunting ground.

You’ll go behind the scenes of:

Raids, task forces, and federal agents descending on a voter-approved industry

Police corruption and political corruption operating in plain sight

A fight that climbs from local courtrooms to the Michigan Supreme Court and toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

The final pivot: when the war stops kicking in doors and starts using paperwork—until it ends in federal prison.

Michigan voted. Patients lined up. And for a minute, it felt like we’d won.

In the early days of medical marijuana, my team and I built the clean, legitimate version of cannabis America said it wanted—safety, lab coats, paperwork, rules. We weren’t hiding in basements. We were running a real operation in broad daylight, serving sick people who finally had a legal path.Then the machine woke up.

Part investigative thriller, part personal reckoning, Capone of Cannabis is the story of what happens when legalization moves faster than power—and power decides it would rather make an example than admit it was wrong.