Orgies of the Hemp Eaters

[Dave Monroe]

Zug, Abel and Hakim Bey, eds.  Orgies of the Hemp
   Eaters: Cuisine, Slang, Literature & Ritual of 
   Cannabis Culture.  New York: Autonomedia, 2004.

"Orgies of the Hemp Eaters": This huge anthology
explores the many roles of Cannabis in Eastern and
Western culture over the past several hundred years.
Comprised primarily of excerpted material from many
dozens of literary sources (including the 1895 New
York Herald piece from which the book derives its
title), the book gives great insight to the uses of
pot in many different times and places, as well as the
changing language used in talking about pot, bunches
of recipes from different eras of Cannabis cuisine,
and depictions of Cannabis consumption in the visual
arts. Introduced with a long piece by Hakim Bey on the
religious uses of Cannabis from ancient China to
contemporary Manhattan, and heavily illustrated.

694 pages, $24.95, http://www.autonomedia.org/orgies


		
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