Billion Dollar Dimebag

Experience the Green Rush through the eyes of Jackson D. Tilley—the sober twenty-something who climbed the ladder at a small vape company while it grew into the nation’s leading cannabis distributor. “At once funny, enlightening, and timely, Tilley’s is a deftly-executed debut.” — Bethany McLean, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room “Smart, funny, and fast-paced, this debut from Jackson Tilley is both a deeply felt memoir and a crash-course in the Green Rush.” —Jonathan Small, Editor-in-Chief, Green Entrepreneur The cannabis industry exploded in Colorado in January of 2014. A few months later, Jackson Tilley stumbled his way through his college graduation and into an internship at O.penVAPE, a Denver-based vaporizer company. Neither the company nor Jackson himself could have predicted what was to come over the next few years. Billion-Dollar Dimebag is Tilley’s firsthand account of the twenty-first century wild west—the new frontier of American industry. He traces the path of the booming company along with the cannabis sector itself, pulling back the curtain on a drug once demonized, but now welcomed as a bastion of progress. Along the way, he’ll get sober, move to a hurricane zone, quit, un-quit, invent new ways to market an ancient product, and get a dog named Bobby Kennedy (not necessarily in that order). He also answers the questions many have been too afraid to ask: “Where are all the TV commercials for weed?” “How does a cannabis company expand nationally if the feds say it’s illegal?” “How is Bob Dole wrapped up in all this?” “Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” Come along for a joyride through the exploding business of cannabis and bear witness to a nation going up in smoke. “A deeply personal and thoughtful journey…