Product Description: This fascinating book traces the global history of marijuana, reaching back thousands of years. Noted historian John Charles Chasteen follows the use of the drug since Neolithic times, which makes marijuana among the first domesticated plants...read more

Product Description: As public attitudes about pot undergo rapid change, Roger Roffman's portrait of marijuana in America rises above punditry and rhetoric Roger Roffman first discovered marijuana while serving as a US Army officer in Vietnam.  From these seemingly innocuous beginnings, Roffman has been fascinated by marijuana, as a researcher, scholar, therapist, activist, and user...read more

Product Description: Martin A. Lee 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...read more

Product Description: “Hallelujah and glory be to Smoke Signals, Martin Lee’s bodacious new book…Lee chronicles everything and everyone worth chronicling in the annals of marijuana” (High Times).This is the great American pot story, a dramatic social exploration of a plant that sits at the nexus of political, legal, medical, and scientific discourse...read more

Product Description: The bestselling author of Acid Dreams tells the great American pot story—a panoramic, character-driven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimensions of the world’s most controversial plant. Martin A...read more

Product Description: Insane, informative, inspiring, and impressive—the most up-to-date and comprehensive trivia book on the subject of all things cannabis.Wacky weed wisdom! Keep your mind fresh and informed on one of the largest growing topics. Don’t let go of that short-term memory! With conversation starters, such as, “Name the 5 most influential pot movies,” “List the 5 top stoner books of all time,” and “Name the 5 best pot strains,” Dr...read more

Product Description: An in-depth study of the most widely-used and controversial drug in the world today.To some it’s anathema, to others it provides relief from crippling pain; to others still, it is a legal anomaly and should be decriminalized. Whatever the viewpoint, and by whatever name it is known, cannabis -- or marijuana, hashish, dope, kif, weed, dagga, grass, ganga -- incites debate at every level...read more

Discusses the uses of marijuana in both the past and present, issues surrounding medicinal marijuana, the use of marijuana for spiritual enhancement and creative inspiration, and the effects of legislation banning marijuana use.

Product Description: Of all the plants men have ever grown, none has been praised and denounced as often as marihuana (Cannabis sativa). Throughout the ages, marihuana has been extolled as one of man's greatest benefactors­ and cursed as one of his greatest scourges...read more