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Cannabis's recent history has been marked by politically motivated prohibition, despite centuries of cultivation. How did we get here and what can we do about it? In The Flowers of Good, neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro offers a brief history of the ancient herb and describes how collective human achievements domesticated this incredibly versatile plant and how racism and conservatism conspired to demonize it. Presented as an urgent debate that seeks to break down prejudices and engender dialogue, The Flowers of Good draws on history, culture, personal testimonies, memoir, and scientific rigor to combat misinformation about cannabis and reveal its potential. In accessible, engaging prose, Ribeiro explains the science behind marijuana's remarkable ability to treat everybody from children with epilepsy to seniors with dementia. With the medicinal use of marijuana is no longer questioned by science, the rest of culture is finally starting to catch up. The Flowers of Good explores this new chapter in humanity's history with marijuana, going beyond the scientific aspects of the substance to examine its use in connection with sport, work, study, sex, sleep, and religion--all aimed at improving quality of life.

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Sidarta Ribeiro is a neuroscientist and biologist, postdoctoral fellow in neurophysiology at Duke University, professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), and member of the Centro de Estudos Estrategicos Fiocruz mental health research group. He is the author of The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams and Sonho manifesto: dez exercicios urgentes de otimismo apocaliptico (Manifest Dream: Ten Urgent Exercises in Apocalyptic Optimism). Brian Troxell is a SAG-AFTRA voice-actor and an actor-actor. He's an owner-producer-director-actor at Sketchworks Comedy, Atlanta's longest running sketch comedy company, and he's also the anchor of their weekly NewsBrake program, which streams on Sketchworks' social media pages. He's performed 200 audiobooks across every genre you can imagine (except porn), and he narrated Audible.com's daily Wall Street Journal Morning Read under the name Alexander Quincy from 2015 until it was unceremoniously cancelled at the end of November 2021. Brian is represented by AMT and can be seen in Hawkeye and the fourth and sixth seasons of Cobra Kai, among other places. He lives in Kennesaw with his two cats, Winston and Malachi. Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with about a hundred books to his name. Translations include Sidarta Ribeiro's The Oracle of Night and The Flowers of Good. He is currently translating a Guatemalan novel and writing a book about Shakespeare.

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