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Smoke This Book!
By Hempology | October 8, 2003
From Monday Magazine, October 8th, 2003
By John Threlfall
How-to-grow books aside, movies about pot are far more common than marijuana literature.
But if you’re more a reader than a watcher, here’s a few dope titles worth tracking down.
Baked Potatoes: A Pot Smoker’s guide to Film and Video by John Hulme &
Michale Wexler (Delta, 1996)
Imagine if Roger Ebert got stoned and wrote his own movie guide, complete with categories
like “Bad Seeds,” “Unsung Heroes” and “Risky Calls.” Comes with a zero-to-five pot leaf
rating system for more than 150 films. Almost funnier to read than it is to use.
Pot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture by Brian Preston (St. Martin’s, 2002)
B.C. writer Preson travels from the Cannabis Cup in Vancouver through Laos, Cambodia, Nepal,
Thailand, Australia, Holland, Switzerland, Spain, Morocco, England and even the USA, doing
what most writers do – smoking and writing. The diference is, Preston has chosen to write
about what he’s smoking.
The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the
Conspiracy Against Marijuana by Jack Herer (AH HA, 2000)
“The book that inspired the modern hemp revolution and marijuana movement,” says Cannabis
Culture editor Dana Larsen, and who are we to argue?
Paradise Burning: Adventures of a High Times Journalist by Chris Simunek (Griffin,
1998)
Man, is this a dream assignment or what? Flash your High Times press pass and get
into some deep smoke. Like, wow. I’ll take a hit of that.
Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail by Robert Sabbag (Little Brown, 2002)
The same guy responsible for the cocaine classic Snowblind takes us back to those
handy days of the ’70s, when the Doobie Brothers were hip and there was more pot coming from
Colombia than Canada. Thank god for Free Trade.
The Joint Rolling Handbook by Liz McBeth (Bobcat Press, 1997)
Sixty-four pages on how to roll joints? Get busy! Too bad it doesn’t come with a sample
pack.
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