It's not too late for the obligatory 4/20 book post

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Wed Apr 21 08:50:47 CDT 2010


gotta have something by Paul Bowles on that list and Infinite Jest, of course

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>        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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