It's not too late for the obligatory 4/20 book post
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Apr 20 20:45:31 CDT 2010
In January, with the help of writer Mark Haskell Smith, we came
up with a list of our top 10 weed books:
The novels "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by
Richard Farina, "Budding Prospects" by T.C. Boyle and
"Vineland" by Thomas Pynchon; "Burning Rainbow Farm: How
a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke" by Dean Kuipers,
"Cannabis: A History" by Martin Booth, "The Emperor Wears No
Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and
the Conspiracy Against Marijuana" by Jack Herer and
"Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's
Bible" by Jorge Cervantes, all nonfiction; and essays, memoir
and more in "The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960" edited by
John Strausbaugh and Donald Blaise, "The Hasheesh Eater"
by Fitz Hugh Ludlow and "Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other
Tastes" by Terry Southern. . .
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/04/the-obligatory-420-book-post.html
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