Overview
What exactly happens when you get stoned? Why does your mouth dry up and why do you become so interested in food and sex? Why can some people work when they're stoned and others can't? What are the tobacco companies' plans for exploiting the potential legal market? How come there's so much cannabis found in prisons and how does it get there? Who brings it across national borders? ""Cannabis Culture"" answers all these questions and more. Thirty years after ""The Times"" ran an advertisement calling the law against cannabis 'immoral in principle and unworkable in practice', the drug's legalisation has become a live political and social issue. But there is surprisingly little information available on the drug: from its medicinal properties to its function as a commodity which is traded on a global scale, its role in various religions to the many ways in which it can be cultivated and its effect on the body and mind.
Full Product Details
Author: Patrick Matthews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.210kg
ISBN: 9780747548522
ISBN 10: 0747548528
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 07 August 2000
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
Millions of people smoke for pleasure, while an ever-growing number - some well into old age - claim that it alleviates the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and other debilitating illnesses (a claim suported by many doctors). Yet no government - least of all the current one - dares to consider legalization (or even decriminalization). Why not? asks award-winning wine writer Matthews, as he presents the evidence for and against, and examines the historical role of the drug in Arab society, where for the last 1000 years it has been celebrated and vilified in equal measures. Matthews is an enthusiast, an unashamed proselytizer for the demon weed, but he doesn't ignore the downsides - witness his hilarious account of dope-induced paranoia in Morocco's Rif Valley. A passionate, yet scholarly book, and a timely rejoinder to the anti-drug hysteria one encounters among press and politicians. (Kirkus UK)
Author Information
Author Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=1717
Patrick Matthews is a freelance writer and journalist. He has written for the Independent, the Mail on Sunday, the Guardian and Time Out. He won the 'Wines from France 1995 Premier Cru' award for wine writing and was shortlisted for the Glenfiddich and Andre Simon awards for his book THE WILD BUNCH: GREAT WINES FROM SMALL PRODUCERS in 1998.
