Denise Frisino is an award-winning writer, actress and arts teacher. She has spent her summers playing and working in the numerous islands that define the Pacific Northwest, where her family spans four generations. Frisino and her husband spend time at Hood Canal and reside in Seattle. Her novel, Whiskey Cove, is a nominee for the 2013 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.
Researcher cites parallels to ending Prohibition.
by Denise Frisino
Whether they realize it or not, residents of Colorado and Washington have traveled back in time — 80 years, to be exact.
The first two states to decriminalize recreational marijuana are sharing in the national experience of 1933: the end of Prohibition. And the similarities are uncanny, says Prohibition-era researcher and author Denise Frisino.