Legal High

Legal High is a 2016 novel by German author ; a social satire about a near-future Germany where legalization of cannabis is imminent. The author is also a journalist ( editor in chief of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungs cultural magazine Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly). The novel's protagonist, der Dude, is based on a German cannabis grower with whom Schmidt became acquainted while doing journalistic research.