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Foster Winans

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Journalist, author, ghostwriter, publisher.

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Inside America's Failing Pot Experiment - Foster Winans - Medium

Inside America's Failing Pot Experiment - Foster Winans - Medium

Medium — Last year’s bright future for cannabis is this year’s regulatory clown car, only less funny, more dangerous, and an investment minefield.

Pesticides in Illegal Pot: A Budding Health Crisis

Pesticides in Illegal Pot: A Budding Health Crisis

Medium — First published on The Marijuana Times] A page one story in the L.A. Times last week reported on the whack-a-mole battle that city police have been waging against the sale of unregulated cannabis products. Based on its research, the newspaper estimated that more than half of L.A.'s dispensaries are unlicensed pop-up shops, and that they proliferate faster than the police can shut them down.

Marijuana Has Conquered America, But The War on Pot Is Far From Over

Marijuana Has Conquered America, But The War on Pot Is Far From Over

Medium — The steady drumbeat of news about legalization, decriminalization, and mass expungements of old convictions suggests the golden age of cannabis is upon us. Not so fast, it turns out. Marijuana may have conquered America's hearts and minds, but the official War on Pot continues to sputter along, defying logic, ruining lives, and begging explanation.

The Coming Cannabis Crash: The Green Rush May Hit A Wall in 2019

The Coming Cannabis Crash: The Green Rush May Hit A Wall in 2019

Medium — This may be the year that the cannabis green rush hits the wall. Like other good ideas that blew up into frenzied manias - the Internet bubble of the late 1990s, for example - a lot of money will be...

Let Everyone Use What Wall Street Knows

Let Everyone Use What Wall Street Knows

The New York Times — Being against insider trading is like being against sin, the libertarian Harry Browne once observed. Like most sins, it principally offends those who don't or can't indulge; like most sins, it shouldn't be a crime. Insider trading encompasses the buying or selling of stocks based on non-public information about the securities in question.

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Ghostwriter, "The Man On Mao's Right"

Ghostwriter, "The Man On Mao's Right"

amazon.com — No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu’s The Man on Mao’s Right. Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in China’s foreign policy, Ji now provides an honest, detailed account of the personalities and events that shaped today’s People’s Republic. "Brave, beautifully written testimony with the editorial assistance of ghostwriter **Foster Winans**, who reworked the Chinese-language text published in 1999. --Kirkus Reviews

Pesticides in Illegal Pot: A Budding Health Crisis

Pesticides in Illegal Pot: A Budding Health Crisis

Medium — First published on The Marijuana Times] A page one story in the L.A. Times last week reported on the whack-a-mole battle that city police have been waging against the sale of unregulated cannabis products. Based on its research, the newspaper estimated that more than half of L.A.'s dispensaries are unlicensed pop-up shops, and that they proliferate faster than the police can shut them down.