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Book Launch: "How I Got You Your Ounce" Jimmy X
- Dates: May 16, 2026
- Times: 2pm - 3pm
- Admission: Free
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The BiblioPub
Location: The Bibliopub
416 Campbell Ave. SW
Roanoke, VA 24016 - Send Email
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Book Launch: Marijuana may be legal today in much of the United States, but for decades, millions of Americans relied on a shadow network of small-scale dealers who worked behind closed doors, hidden in plain sight. In How I Got You Your Ounce (BookBaby, 2025), a man known only as “Jimmy X” breaks his silence after 53 years as a New York City pot dealer, revealing how the so-called “legacy black market” shaped—and mirrored—the nation’s cultural and economic evolution.
Told in collaboration with award-winning journalist Nan K. Chase and researcher David Belmont, this candid memoir is at once a personal narrative, a social history, and a sharp critique of America’s fractured cannabis policies.
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