The book focuses on 58-year-old Betty Craven, a strikingly beautiful former Texas beauty queen who is a staunch Republican and widow to her equally conservative career military husband, Frank. Betty’s only child, a son, died in his mid-20s from a drug overdose. When we meet Betty, her life is in suspended animation. The walls are closing in around her. All she has left that she loves is her award-winning flower garden and the remnants of equipment left over from her failed gourmet chocolate store. When she comes to the shocking conclusion that her entire life has been wasted, a rebellious spirit that Betty has kept hidden, explodes to the surface. Her conservative world spins 180 degrees around as she comes face-to-face with her biggest fears. And one of those fears is marijuana. The path she chooses is paved with secrecy, eccentric characters, toe-curling love, life-changing events, and a connection to her unconventional, basement garden that she never could have imagined.
My intention when I wrote Betty’s (Little Basement) Garden was to show the truth about the medical marijuana industry in Colorado. It’s not all sunshine and lollipops. I don’t sugarcoat the realities of working in the cannabis world, nor do I romanticize what it means to be a grower for a seriously ill patient who depends upon your green thumb to make his or her medicine. The book illustrates a massive shift in the “anti-pot” propaganda that I grew up hearing and believing. My hope is that it’s not just an entertaining story; my hope is that it’s also enlightening for those who read it and believe the way I used to about this ancient herb. As Betty Craven says, “There’s nothing more liberating than releasing a limiting belief.”
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of Laurel Dewey’s post referenced a 1974 study from the University of Virginia. The study was actually conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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