Call him T, Winkers, or Tiddlywinks, Hal Watt is a man with a gift for marijuana, and he shares his life’s passion with us in his engaging and exuberant memoir Mary Jane. The first trauma of T’s young life occurred in the early 1960s, when the Bridgeport, CT police hauled off Uncle Noodles, cannabis cultivator extraordinaire, together with a full haul of mature, budding marijuana plants. Fortunately, by the time T is out of high school, Noodles is no longer behind bars, and he’s more than willing to share his botanical skills with his equally green-thumbed nephew. Mary Jane is an exuberant, amorous, picaresque look at a much more innocent time, when criminals were funny, drugs weren’t scary, and life was all about getting a good buzz on.
