Jan 14 2010
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“ With the help of Mark Haskell Smith, L.A. Times contributor and author of the forthcoming novel “Baked,” we came up with this list of 10 choice books about marijuana. In alphabetical order:
* “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me” by Richard Farina (novel)
* “Budding Prospects” by T.C. Boyle (novel)
* “Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke” by Dean Kuipers (nonfiction)
* “Cannabis: A History” by Martin Booth (nonfiction)
* “The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960” edited by John Strausbaugh and Donald Blaise (essays and more)
* “The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana” by Jack Herer (nonfiction)
* “The Hasheesh Eater” by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (memoir)
* “Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible” by Jorge Cervantes (nonfiction)
* “Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes” by Terry Southern (essays)
* “Vineland” by Thomas Pynchon (novel)
* “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me” by Richard Farina (novel)
* “Budding Prospects” by T.C. Boyle (novel)
* “Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke” by Dean Kuipers (nonfiction)
* “Cannabis: A History” by Martin Booth (nonfiction)
* “The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960” edited by John Strausbaugh and Donald Blaise (essays and more)
* “The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana” by Jack Herer (nonfiction)
* “The Hasheesh Eater” by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (memoir)
* “Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible” by Jorge Cervantes (nonfiction)
* “Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes” by Terry Southern (essays)
* “Vineland” by Thomas Pynchon (novel)
