As the progress bar crept forward, Elias thought about Hogshire. The man hadn’t been a kingpin; he was a guy who realized that the secret to one of the world's most controlled substances was sitting in plain sight, blooming in grandmother's gardens and sold in spice aisles. He had demystified the sacred and the terrifying, turning a global commodity into a kitchen-table craft project.
The story of Jim Hogshire and his book, Opium for the Masses
: It cemented Hogshire's reputation as a "provocateur" who used the First Amendment to its absolute limit. The Arrest and Legal Fallout