“Mendo: How an Unlikely Group of Rebels Turned Cannabis into California’s Cash Crop,” by British historian Charlie Harris, traces the rise and fall of marijuana fortunes in Mendocino County, Calif., from the ’60s to today. (Counterpoint via Bay City News)

Quipped my next-door neighbor when I pointed out that his eight-year-son shooting BBs at the deer that browsed through our yards was against the law, “Well, we never cared much about the law now, did we?”

By “we,” he meant boomers, the rat-in-the-snake configuration of those born between 1946 and 1964. He had a point.

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