"Snow Crash" and "Reefer Madness"

I have two reading suggestions for you today:

"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson

I have but scratched the surface of this science fiction novel that has been recommended to me many times over. I am fast seeing this book as one that sits in the all-time-favorite pile for me, as well as just being a lot of fun.

"Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market" by Eric Schlosser

I have also only just begun to read this book but it is obviously a highly informative, if somewhat outdated (2003), observation of the American Black Market. This is the "unspoken" piece of the economy as a whole.

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There are strange parallels between these two books that I am only just being to piece together.