Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show, a very special guest.

His name is James Higden, H-I-G-D-O-N. And back in 2012, he wrote a very thorough book about marijuana trade in Kentucky.

The title of the book is The Cornbread Mafia, A Homegrown syndicates, code of silence, and the biggest

marijuana bust in American history. It was published 2012. Jim Higden is a native of Lebanon,

Kentucky, an area that we're going to talk about. He holds degrees from Center College,

Brown University, and Columbia University. And this book led to a journalism career covering Kentucky for the Washington Post and cannabis policy for Politico.

Jim used his expertise in the hemp industry to make cornbread hemp a tangible CBD business with the best farmers in Kentucky.

And his website is www.com, all one word.

And I'll put something in the show notes too that has some of the products that he's promoting,

which are full spectrum CBD gummies. But we're going to talk about this book. It has like over

500 five-star reviews on Amazon.

So people love this book.

Really fascinating.

I learned a lot.

I really didn't know much about I'm from living California.

So I didn't know about kind of this kind of really interesting element of Kentucky,

but he can talk more about that.

So Jim Higden, are you there?

Hey, thanks for having me.

Awesome.

Well, thanks for agreeing to the interview.

For people who may not have heard this book or your background,

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