Miro Basinas is an experimental botanist who sells his rarefied product to a discerning clientele. Only Miro s not growing heirloom tomatoes or making organic winehe s growing weed. And when Miro hits the big time by winning Amsterdam s famed Cannabis Cup, "cannasseurs" and "ganjaficionados" aren t the only people who want a piece of him and his mind-blowing pot that tastes like mangoes.
A wickedly funny novel, Baked opens with a bang as Miro is cut down by a bullet. A mild-mannered hipster who doesn t know the first thing about revengeor even who shot himMiro is soon on a quest to...

Reporting for the Los Angeles Times on the international blind tasting competition held annually in Amsterdam known as the Cannabis Cup, novelist Mark Haskell Smith sampled a variety of marijuana that was unlike anything he d experienced. It wasn t anything like typical stoner weed, in fact it didn t get you stoned. This cannabis possessed an ephemeral quality known to aficionados as dankness.
Armed with a State of California Medical Marijuana recommendation, he begins a journey into the international underground where super-high-grade marijuana is developed and tracks down...