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Cannabis Books

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Im starting a small collection of cannabis related books to archive in our little home library. Can anyone recomend an author or publication?
cheers, Leeroy :joint:
 
Kog has a book available at greengrasspub.com called Marijuana, A Growers Lot.

Richard Cortes produced a great book called; It's just a plant. This book is designed as an aid to help explain to children what cannabis is, (without the reefer madness garbage). It is available from justaplant.com

Andrew Kavasilas from the Oasis Cafe in Nimbin assembled a big old pile of cannabis knowledge into a book, Medical Uses of Cannabis, A guide for Medical Practioners. Probably call the Oasis CAfe, they'll be able to tell you where to get one.

The Sydney Connection by John Jiggens was also a good read, exploring the seedy underbelly of Australia's early foray into large scale commercial cannabis cropping, John asks some great questions designed to get you thinking. (Book-shops?)

The next one on my list is Jesus Weed by Gerard Taylor, (Gerard, Gerald , Gerry?) Also another Nimbin based book, this is the only one I've yet to read. Definately available in Book-shops.
 
i have the cannabibles 1 and 2.......great photography...... and most of the grow guides. just picked up Cannabis by Jonathan Greene... kinda the history and info behind cannabis. another good one everyone should read is Romancing Mary Jane by Micheal Poole...the story of a first time grower. very good. also pick up...The Secret Life of Plants. not all about cannabis but also very good. youve also got the big book of buds. ok but kinda like a seed catalogue. thhats what ive got all very cool and worth the money invested.
 

Dutchgrown

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Here's another one......

Here's another one......

The Emperor Wears No Clothes, by Jack Herer

and all IC Mag's too, they are square bound which
makes them easy to stand upright in a bookshelf. :wink:
 

moonshoes

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I just read about this book in a magazine. Here's the article:

It was recently announced that the government plans to prosecute as dealers those caught with as few as five grams of cannabis – enough for about ten joints. These people could face up to 14 years in jail. Faced with such a stiff penalty, users might think it wise to renounce the weed altogether, in which case the best they can do is intoxicate themselves vicariously by immersing themselves in some of the (not terribly copious, for obvious reasons) literature about drugs. Right on cue comes Walter Benjamin’s On Hashish (Harvard), a collection of writings about the series of experiments” that the philosopher and some of his intellectual chums carried out in Berlin, Marseilles and Ibiza between 1927 and 1934. Benjamin’s method was to imbibe a scary amount of cannabis (usually by ingesting it: the most intoxicating method) and then record the experience in the form of jottings, which he sometimes wrote up into more coherent prose the following day. Not surprisingly, these “protocols”, as Benjamin called them (thus conferring a dubious aura of scientific exactitude upon the enterprise), make for uneven reading. Many are plain incomprehensible: it is hard to now, for instance, the meaning of the “colportage phenomenon of space” (he refers to his a lot). Yet others are surprisingly lucid and, for those familiar with altered states of consciousness, instantly recognisable. “The sphere of ‘character’ opens up. All those present take on hues of the comic.” (Read: “I’m starting to get the giggles.”) “Hunger
as an oblique axis cutting through the system of the trance.” (“Now I’ve got the unchies.”) Or, most alarmingly: “On my return home, when the chain on the bathroom door proved hard to fasten, the suspicion: an experiment is being set up.” (“Oh my god, I’m feeling seriously paranoid. Please, someone, get me out of here!”)
 

Puffin13

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As massass789 said, the Cannabibles are great! Cannabible 3 has just recently been released. The Big Book of Buds 1 & 2 by Ed Rosenthal should also be in your library. I have gleaned alot of info from these books and really enjoy them. The book HASHISH! by Robert Cornell Clark is a must have! These are just a couple of the many valuable books about our beloved plant. Peace.
 

Rosy Cheeks

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What made you dig up this one year old thread moonshoes?

I guess the original thread-question isn't an issue anymore, since Leeroy&co has checked out of the hotel.
There are tons of "Cannabis related" books out there, a "small selection" would soon grow out of proportions.
There are cultivation books, culinary works, medical litterature and social antrophological studies, legalization literature, and fiction on the use of and works simply inspired from the use of Cannabis.

In order to find your way through the jungle, I would like to recommend two books by Ernest J Abel;
"A Comprehensive Guide to the Cannabis Literature" (1979)
"A Marihuana Dictionary: Words, Terms, Events, and Persons Relating to Cannabis" (1982)
They will give you a rough idea of the literary Cannabis scene up to the 80's.

Before the Beat-generation a few literary hearoes such as Baudelaire and Benjamin played around with Cannabis, and reflected on its psychoactive effects.

One of my favourite fictional writers on Cannabis is Paul Bowles. Many of his short stories from the Tangier years deals directly with the pleasure of smoking Kif.
There's a collection of four short stories called "A Hundred Camels in the Court Yard" which is spot on the subject.

I hope this helped
 

limey

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I have just finished "Outlaws in Babylon: Shocking True Adventures on the Marijuana Frontier" by Steve Chapple and it's a great read which now provides an interesting historical perspective on weed in California (and a bit on Hawaii) as it's set in the early 80s, at the start of Reagan's War on Drugs (didn't that war go well? lol)

Mr Nice is also a classic, of course.

I second Puffin's recommendation of HASHISH! by Robert Cornell Clark: it's excellent

For the coffee table, the Big Book of Buds series are great, very informative on strains and attractively published

I'd urge any comic fans to hunt down the Russell comics by Pete Loveday. try 'Saga of a peaceful man'. they're a great UK counterpoint to the Freak Bros series.

Reefer madness by Eric Schlosser isn't bad either

Happy reading!
:joint:
 

GMT

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Unless its a text book on genetics, I don't think you'll find anything in one of these "grow" books or "pictures of buds" books that you wont find on icmag.
 
K

Ken Boon

Cannabibles man! v1. v2. v3

Jason King......

should be filed under BUD PORN


peace and Bud

KEN:joint::yeahthats
 

CaptainTrips

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Unless its a text book on genetics, I don't think you'll find anything in one of these "grow" books or "pictures of buds" books that you wont find on icmag.

Sometimes its nice to have something in analog rather than a computer screen.
 

Gray Wolf

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Sort of depends on what you are looking for bro!

It also depends on who you listen to! Mostly, not everyone agrees on hardly anything.

Some to sort through are:

Marijuana Horticulture, The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible, by Jorge Cervantes
The Cannabis Grow Bible, by Greg Green
How to Grow Medical Marijuana, by Todd McCormick
Marijuana New School, Jeff Mowta
Marijuana Botany, Robert Clark
Marijuana Garden Saver, JC Stitch & Ed Rosenthal
&
Marijuana Chemistry, Genetics, Processing, and Potency, by Michael Starks
Cannabis Alchemy, by D. Gold
Marijuana Gold, Trash to Stash by Ed Rosenthal
Cannabis Alchemy, by David Hoye
Dr Atomic’s Marijuana Multiplier, by Larry Todd

Enjoy!

GW
 

Dr.NO

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"Spliffs"- By Nick Jones

"Marijuana Horticulture"- By Jorge Cervantes

I'd really like to find some old books on hashish and cannabis from throughout human history. I know Herodotus the Greek historian wrote about cannabis use of antuquity in "The Histories", but other than that I wouldn't know where else to look.
 

theHIGHlander

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ive only got 1 book,,the same 1 i bought 8 year ago when i started out it got everything you need/wanted to know about growing,,,....its starting to get old skool now, even 8 years on so much has changed in the ganja world thats not even in the book .. i would say the best book you can have is right hear ICMAG:joint:

grower handbook,,the indoor high yield guide ,,,Ed Rosenthal...

keep it green
highlander
 
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theratings

I like books on weed more than ICMag because it's offline reading material. I never bought any of them besides the Jorge Cervantes Bible but I love the Big Book of Buds and other photography books, those are great to look through for friends and other people if you leave them on your coffee table or on your book shelf.
 

limey

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I should have added

Queen of the South by A. Perez Reverte: a novel about smuggling from Morocco to Spain. It's one of the best thriller/novels that I have ever read, by one of my favourite authors. It's impeccably researched and is just the sort of thing that you really cant experience online. Pefect holiday reading.
 

Puffin13

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"Spliffs"- By Nick Jones

"Marijuana Horticulture"- By Jorge Cervantes

I'd really like to find some old books on hashish and cannabis from throughout human history. I know Herodotus the Greek historian wrote about cannabis use of antuquity in "The Histories", but other than that I wouldn't know where else to look.

Are you looking for books about the recreational use of Cannabis or are you interested in the many other aspects (medical, cultural, industrial, usage) as well? I, personally, love books about cannabis, in it's many forms. Depending on your area of interest, maybe I could offer some suggestions. On the other hand, I would like to ask you, which of the Cannabis books that you have read or own, would you recommend reading? Thanks in advance.

In addition, you mention the historical aspect, this site has a ton & a half of historical info on Cannabis, from around the world. Peace.
 

ROJO145

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How bout a link for all the lazy cheap bastards who like the FREE marijuana books available online?Or do I gotta do everything around here:joint::joint:
torrent,torrent,torrent
 

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