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"Rocky Mountain High" by Finn Murphy

book review by Riley Burnham 7/11/2023

great stuff(!) my second book of his...

this goes from the long-haul moving truck ["The Long Haul" 👍] to a hemp-growing business in Colorado, where Finn invests a lot of money, hires crew, builds facility & product, & grapples w/ laws & bureaucracy [as well as threatening neighbor farms when he pays more than "bottom" rates & is told to pay less]

we learn that the profits fall away fast as the markets mature around hemp/marijuana -- much confusion/disarray due to the complete failure of "war on drugs" [laughable in most senses, other than incarceration & ruining lives...]

Finn is reasonable & tells a good story, concluding that he loses ~$300k in the venture [he says a rare loss like that, given his many endeavors], & finishes a relaxant on his ranch -- being done w/ hemp farming