- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312322208
- ISBN-13: 978-0312322205
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,462,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Enlightening...a very engaging history.', Daily Telegraph .'Booth tells this story with admirable restraint...this book should be on the shelf of anyone interested in human freedoms and bad laws.', Independent .'So good no one will need to do another for at least fifty years...mesmerizing detail, fantastical digressions, lots of jokes and wry asides.', James Delingpole, Literary Review ."Amazingly informative...fascinating stuff", Financial Times .'After two puffs on a marijuana cigarette, I was turned into a bat.', Dr James Munch, pharmacologist, .'A colourful tale ... Chronicles the remarkable and often mystifying process through which cannabis became outlawed throughout the Western world, and the devastating effect such legislation has had on the global economy.', Sunday Telegraph .'A testament to the late Booth that he could make such a boring subject so interesting.', Sunday Times
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A valuable look at the history of one of the oldest forms of human inebriation. Covering religious, industrial as well as cultural usage throughout the world. Famous writers, infamous celebrities and barking mad politicians who have been associated with this herb either pro or anti are mentioned. It is not a piece of pro-dope propaganda but a genuine study of its subject, although reading about US experts who testified to congress that they had smoked grass and turned into a bat does make you wonder at times.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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It just feels as though his publisher thought this book would sell well after his other work 'Opium', so he wrote it to order. He waffles on about hippies and 1960's counter culture and doesn't address the real issues, namely corruption and multi-national corporations who conspire to keep marijuana illegal. I didn't like his style of writing and found the book a little unstructured, he leaps about a bit as if his research was done on the quick, as he finds something else out he just goes of on a tangent. He goes to great lengths to say hes not condoning cannabis use which is just a cop out, he doesn't seem to mind earning his money by writing about marijuana but he makes sure that he comes across as just an academic researching the plant. There are better books on the subject out there.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent book on the subject of Cannabis. Martin Booth looks at the subject from a common-sense angle, sadly lacking in the world of politics.
If you're a cannabis user then you already know the common-sense approach. If you're not a user and prefer to investigate topics rather than blindly accept the view of the political world then read this book.
Found it really helpful when completing a recent assignment on the effects that cannabis legalisation would have on UK society so there's lots in there to send academics off in search of gems as well!
If you're a cannabis user then you already know the common-sense approach. If you're not a user and prefer to investigate topics rather than blindly accept the view of the political world then read this book.
Found it really helpful when completing a recent assignment on the effects that cannabis legalisation would have on UK society so there's lots in there to send academics off in search of gems as well!
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A must read for pro & anti and anything in between
An unbiased factual look at the History (obviously) and most if not all related pro's and cons of the hemp plant in all it's forms. Read more
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