Cannabis - Hardcover

Jonathon-green

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862054797 ISBN 13: 9781862054790

Verlag: Pavilion Books, 2002

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Reseña del editor:

This is the first illustrated book to present the complete story of - from ancient myths to today's on-going controversies. It is a history that stretches over 12,000 years; including its many uses - spiritual, medicinal and recreational - in countries all round the globe; the laws that have tried to suppress it; and the industry, both 'professional' and quite literally 'home-grown' that brings the weed to its millions of consumers. It also lays out the great debate: is cannabis really a 'gateway drug', leading users to heroin and crack? On a lighter note there are 'hash' recipes, a glossary of the wide-ranging slang of marijuana and its paraphernalia, and for those who've always wondered, a step-by-step guide to rolling a 'joint'. Cannabis is presented in an elegant, reading format. And as an extensively illustrated book, the beauty and elegance of the design lifts the subject from street level to that of a reading public who might not have dared to encounter the weed in real life (but may have been secretly eager to know what it is all about). Of course, the book also has hard and well-researched information to enlighten and entertain even the most habitual user.

Biografía del autor:

Jonathon Green is Britain's leading slang lexicographer and a historian of the 'hippie Sixties'. A journalist on London's 'underground' or 'countercultural' press of the 1960s to 1970s, he has written two books on the era: the classic oral history Days In The Life (1988), and his own history of the period, All Dressed Up (1998). Among his slang dictionaries is the major Cassells Dictionary of Slang (1998), which has sold over 60,000 copies and a light-hearted spin-off The Big Book of Filth, so far selling 115,000 copies; other works include many quotations dictionaries, and a history of lexicography - Chasing the Sun - first published in the UK and US in 1996. His books have been published in the UK and US (as well as in Italy, Scandinavia and Japan) since the mid 1970s.

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• Verlag: Pavilion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1862054797
• ISBN 13: 9781862054790
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256