Marijuana

Medical marijuana everywhere -- Hippies start growing marijuana -- Growing takes off -- Breeders change everything -- Cannabis moves indoors -- The politics of marijuana -- Medical dispensaries reshape the business -- Cannabis as medicine -- The cannabis gold rush is on -- A day in the dispensary -- The future of cannabis.

How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana. It tells the remarkable story of marijuana's crooked path from acceptance to demonization and back again, and of the thousands of grassroots activists who made changing marijuana laws their life's work.

Traces the dramatic social history of marijuana from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased. Lee describes how the illicit marijuana subculture overcame government opposition and morphed into a dynamic, multibillion-dollar industry.

Acclaimed food (and drug) writer Michael Pollan explores four plants that have thrived by making themselves useful to human beings, responding not only to our needs but also to our wants for sweetness, beauty, control, and escape: the apple, the tulip, the potato, and our infamous friend marijuana.

JUST SAY YES, perhaps the first marijuana memoir ever published, is a positive account of long-term cannabis use. With ruthless honesty and deadpan humor, the author observes the effect of weed upon every aspect of her life: marriage, motherhood, friendship, work, sport, sex.

In the late 1960s, new age communes began springing up in the American Southwest [...] Huerfano is Price's captivating memoir of the seven years she spent in the Huerfano ("Orphan") Valley when it was a petrie dish of countercultural experiments. [...] Placing her story in the larger context of the times, she describes her participation in the antiwar movement, the advent of the women's movement, and her encounters with such icons as Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, Abbie Hoffman, Stewart Brand, Allen Ginsburg, and Baba Ram Dass.

By engaging sacred and secular texts from around the world, Sacred Bliss demonstrates that throughout religious history, cannabis has offered access to increased imagination and creativity, heightened perspective and insight, and deeper levels of thought."

The former editor of High Times and a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly document the ins and outs of pot culture. The book contains lists of the best stoner movies of all time, celebrity contributions, and a detailed glossary of drug slang. Replete with hilarious trivia and clever illustrations, this book will be sure to entertain anyone it is put in front of.