Author: Allison Margolin Publisher: North Atlantic Books Paperback: 272 pages Price: $ 16.95 Allison Margolin, the daughter of famed marijuana defence attorney Bruce Margolin, has produced a gem here. It would be easy to call her a chip off the old block, but it would also be wrong. Margolin makes it crystal clear that she hasn’t rode in on anyone’s coattails in becoming herself a well-known marijuana defence attorney that has witnessed firsthand the hypocrisy of America’s War on Drugs, which has always been primarily a war on marijuana, for the bulk of her entire life. She reminds me of someone who is supremely self-confident, so much so in fact, that on occasion she has distributed signs around town touting herself as “LA’s dopest attorney.” Some might call that hubris, but I call it believing in yourself, and believe me if you don’t believe in yourself, no one else…
