Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto

What happens when a place on the verge of collapse tries to reinvent itself? How much will it cost? Who will pay the price? Former Marketplace and KCRW reporter David Weinberg spent years following one city in California’s Mojave desert as it tried to transform itself from a city of prisons to a city of pot. And it worked…for a while. Until it, spectacularly, didn’t.