Cannabis Culture: A Journey Through Disputed Territory

by PatrickMatthews (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.27

  What do we really know about cannabis? Why does it make people stoned? Does it kill off brain cells? Why do different kinds of weed have different effects? Is it addictive? Is the talk about medicinal applications genuine, or just a scam to get it legalised? Patrick Matthews journeys through a Rizla-strewn world and finds that researchers have unravelled the complexities of the plant, uncovering in the process much of the chemistry of our minds and emotions. His book is an essential read in the wake of the current debate over the decriminalisation of cannabis.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.27

  What exactly happens when you get stoned? Why does your mouth dry up and why do you become so interested in food and sex? Why can some people work when they're stoned and others can't? What are the tobacco companies' plans for exploiting the potential legal market? How come there's so much cannabis found in prisons and how does it get there? Who brings it across national borders? Cannabis Culture answers all these questions and more. Thirty years after The Times ran an advertisement calling the law against cannabis 'immoral in principle and unworkable in practice', the drug's legalisation has become a live political and social issue. But there is surprisingly little information available on the drug: from its medicinal properties to its function as a commodity which is traded on a global scale, its role in various religions to the many ways in which it can be cultivated and its effect on the body and mind.