Short but interesting article in today's Huffington Post by Jorge Cervantes:

Jorge Cervantes: Mary Jane, You've Come a Long Way Baby

I didn't realize Jorge was a real person named Jorge. A couple of years ago I found material on other internet sites that matched nearly word-for-word the paragraphs from Cervantes' magnum opus, only under the name of a different author, and with references to cannabis scrubbed out and replaced with those of other plants. Because of this I assumed that Jorge Cervantes is a pen name, which would be a reasonable assumption because of the questionable legal position anyone in 1983 put themselves in by writing a book about marijuana cultivation. When I found the other book, identical in every meaningful way to Cervantes' book, I figured that older material previously published had been rehashed for marijuana and put into another book designed to appeal to weed growers.

Now, we have a short op-ed in a national web paper under the name, and with a photograph, of Jorge himself. I'm surprised.