Jen Hobbs is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program. She’s the author of American Hemp: How Growing Our Newest Cash Crop Can Improve Our Health, Clean Our Environment, and Slow Climate Change and the co-author of Jesse Ventura’s Marijuana Manifesto. While this is her first cookbook, the kitchen isn’t the only place she’s dabbled in cannabis-infused edibles. She’s also experienced some of the most popular munchies in cannabis culture ranging from Amsterdam coffeehouse space-cakes to Colorado dispensary exclusives such as Snoop Dogg’s THC-infused gourmet chocolate bars. Prior to the legalisation of recreational marijuana in California, her family owned and operated a medical marijuana collective in Shasta County where they bred a variety of THC and CBD strains. Once hemp was federally legalized, her family founded Nature’s Nectar, a CBD extraction facility specialising in producing CBD Full-Spectrum Shatter sourced from organic hemp farms. In 2019, they also opened The Hive, a local CBD store. She now resides in O’Fallon, Missouri, with her husband, Andrew, and daughter, McKayla. –This text refers to the paperback edition.