Lentopar, a suburban area of Presburg, looks like a desert before Elver Balls persuades his neighbours to plant marijuana in their respective small portions of land.
He promises them generous salaries in return for his right to sell the crops for his own profit. The Lentopar people accept his offer and work hard, turning the Lentopar desert into a wealth of green shoots. For a time, they remain blind to the fact that the high salaries promised turn out to be starvation wages.
Now a rich man, Balls builds himself a small palace in Lentopar. He follows up with another much larger and luxurious palace in the most fashionable and expensive quarter of Presburg. There he enjoys the self-conferred title of Lord, and befriends a woman who gives birth to a boy and a girl. After dismissing her from his life, Balls calls her a whore.
This doesn’t prevent him from becoming fond of the son she gave him, in spite of the woman’s mental health problems. As his son enters adulthood, the young man has to be sent to a madhouse from time to time, yet everything plays out in Marijuana Wealth and Mental Health.
About the Author
Karl Hesper is the writer of many stories, most of which have been published in the U.S. and Britain. He writes because it is a self-rewarding effort and is also a means to highlight facets of the human wickedness that has caused endless wars, massacres, and bloodshed throughout centuries of expansion and progress.