Peter Hecht

Peter Hecht is a senior writer who covers California issues for The Sacramento Bee and McClatchy Newspapers. In 2010, as an initiative to legalize marijuana in California was put on the ballot, Hecht’s blog for the Bee, “Weed Wars,” covered the news, trends, and people behind the California marijuana story. His marijuana coverage was honored for explanatory reporting in the “Best of the West” journalism awards and earned an Excellence in Journalism prize from the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Publishers Weekly said of his book, “Weed Land,” “With journalistic bravura, Hecht’s…cautionary and deftly reported account is an animated examination of how too much, too soon almost doomed a movement.”