CANNABIS

by JonathonGreen (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $4.29

  This is the first illustrated book to present the complete story of - from ancient myths to today's on-going controversies. It is a history that stretches over 12,000 years; including its many uses - spiritual, medicinal and recreational - in countries all round the globe; the laws that have tried to suppress it; and the industry, both 'professional' and quite literally 'home-grown' that brings the weed to its millions of consumers. It also lays out the great debate: is cannabis really a 'gateway drug', leading users to heroin and crack? On a lighter note there are 'hash' recipes, a glossary of the wide-ranging slang of marijuana and its paraphernalia, and for those who've always wondered, a step-by-step guide to rolling a 'joint'. Cannabis is presented in an elegant, reading format. And as an extensively illustrated book, the beauty and elegance of the design lifts the subject from street level to that of a reading public who might not have dared to encounter the weed in real life (but may have been secretly eager to know what it is all about). Of course, the book also has hard and well-researched information to enlighten and entertain even the most habitual user.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $13.90

  Twelve millennia since it appeared, cannabis remains one of the most popular and controversial drugs consumed today. This revised, paperback edition of the successful Cannabis is an informative and entertaining guide to the history of 'weed'. Here one will find a story - from ancient myths and legends to today's on-going controversies - that stretches over 12,000 years; its many uses - spiritual, medicinal and recreational - in countries all round the globe; the laws that have tried to suppress it; and the industry, both 'professional' and quite literally 'homegrown' that brings the weed to its millions of consumers. In addition, readers will discover just what makes smokers 'high' and the way cannabis is being rediscovered as a vital painkiller for such diseases as cancer, arthritis and multiple sclerosis; it lays out the great debate: is cannabis really a 'gateway drug', leading users to heroin and crack; and on a lighter note there are cannabis recipes, the wide-ranging slang of cannabis and for those who've always wondered, a step-by-step guide to rolling a 'joint'. The book seeks to end all misinformation and neither preaches nor condemns. It is as factual reference book which will enlighten reader to all aspects of smoking one of the world's oldest cultivated plants.