Rashawn Prince, author of "How to Roll a Blunt for Dummies," hails from Harlem, and has peddled his self-published title since the summer of 2006 on the corner of Broadway and Prince in Soho.

Business is still booming. "I first envisioned the book's demographic to be ages 17 to 25, but baby boomers became 40 percent of my sales," Prince tells Asylum. "I've met so many people from different backgrounds -- rich, poor, all races, different political views, people from around the world. We all have so much in common being weed smokers."

Though even after rubbing elbows with all walks of 420-friendly life, the NYC resident is oddly against the recent efforts made by New York legislators to make the sticky icky legal in the city or state.

Keep reading to learn why Prince thinks pot should remain outlawed.

"I don't think weed should be legal in this country," he says. "For some people, not everyone, weed can be a gateway drug. It's only because weed is labeled as a drug and, once you start smoking, a young, impressionable mind might think, 'Hey, nothing bad happened when I smoked that blunt, so what bad could happen if I sprinkled some heroin in my next one?'"

But the more pressing reason he's against legalizing pot? It makes it totally uncool. "It dawned on me that, if we made weed legal in this country, a generation of people wouldn't even smoke weed. Legalization would take all the coolness out of it, and we would lose a much-loved subculture. Let's put it like this: Any nerd can walk in a coffee shop in Amsterdam and buy weed, but, where it's illegal, you have to be a cool motherfucker to have a weed connect."

Expect more philosophical hits from Prince in "How to Roll a Blunt for Rocket Scientists," which he says is dropping this fall.