Playboy October 2010

FEATURES
44 GROWN IN THE USA ..
Marijuana generates more wealth in America than wheat and corn combined, and next month it could become legal in the state of California. RICHARD STRATTON and ROB HILL break down the complex economy surrounding our biggest cash crop.
54 A LETTER TO THE ALIENS
JON STEWART pens a postapocalyptic handbook on the wacky human race.
62 THE PLAYBOY BAR: BOURBON
The down and dirty on the true American spirit.
By TERRY SULLIVAN
80 THE PLAYBOY HONOR ROLL
Grab your sunglasses and meet the country's best and brightest professors.
By THE PLAYBOY STAFF
84 SOLE ASYLUM
STEVE GARBARINO's guide to making other men want to stand in your shoes.
86 THE UNSTOMPABLE ROACH
KEVIN COOK profiles the man who honed Manny Pacquiao and Mickey Rourke.
92 THE BIGGEST GAMBLE IN SPORTS HISTORY
How Monday Night Football defied the odds and became one of the longest-running shows on TV.
By KEVIN COOK
INTERVIEW
39 JOSH BROLIN
He's come a long way since The Goonies. The actor opens up to STEPHEN REBELLO about his strange trip to megastardom.
20Q
90 WILLIAM SHATNER
CBS's cantankerous dad talks to DAVID RENSIN about Star Trek erotica, toupees and Betty White's flexible hips.
FICTION
64 WOMAN, FIRE & THE SEA
A brooding chauffeur cavorts with the niece of his boss.
By College Fiction Contest winner MEAGHAN MULHOLLAND
PICTORIALS
48 GREY'S ANATOMY
Sasha Grey is leaving adult films to go mainstream, but the notorious beauty is still perfectly happy to let the world enjoy all her naked splendor.
68 CLAIRE SINCLAIR
A buxom brunette with a devilish sense of humor and a passion for all things vintage, Miss October is a veritable modern-day pinup girl.
98 GIRLS OF THE PAC 10
Who needs football? These lauded conference schools are home to something even better: some of the hottest college women in the West.
CARTOONS
96 THE WEIRD WORLD OF GAHAN WILSON
An eerily funny realm where body parts and other horrors abound.
SPORTS
95 2010 NFL PREVIEW
Pigskin fever is upon us. RICK GOSSELIN breaks down everyone and everything you need to know about the new season.
PLAYBOY FORUM
131 CALIFORNIA'S JOINT SESSION
The people who want weed legalized may surprise you. By PAUL KRASSNER
132 BLOWING SMOKE
MARK A.R. KLEIMAN ponders his marijuana voting dilemma.
NEWS AND NOTES
11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
Hef receives the PromaxBDA Lifetime Achievement Award; Crystal Harris makes sweet Playmate pop; Jamie Foxx and Olympian Apolo Ohno kick back at the ESPY preparty at the Mansion.
12 STAR-SPANGLED PARTY
Seth Green, Corey Feldman, Gene Simmons and other celebs get wet and wild at the Mansion for Fourth of July fun with Hef and his Playmates.
128 PLAYMATE NEWS
Miss January 2010 Jaime Faith Edmondson heats up a Trace Adkins music video; Playmate of the Year 2007 Sara Jean Underwood becomes the very lovely face of Victory Poker.
DEPARTMENTS
3 PLAYBILL
15 DEAR PLAYBOY
19 AFTER HOURS
24 REVIEWS
31 MANTRACK
35 PLAYBOY ADVISOR
78 PARTY JOKES
136 GRAPEVINE