Jim Rendon

Jim Rendon is a freelance journalist who covers business, science, design, the environment and plenty of other topics. He's gone cage diving with great white sharks, toured remote, ridge-top marijuana grows and visited maximum security prisons and mental institutions in pursuit of a great story. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and newspaper, Mother Jones, Marie Claire, Fortune, Men's Journal, Rolling Stone, Outside and other publications. He is a former staff writer at Metro, Silicon Valley's Alternative Weekly and SmartMoney magazine and is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. His first book, Super-Charged: How Hippies, Outlaws, and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana was published in 2012 by Timber Press. Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth was published in 2015 by Touchstone.