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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup by Mark Haskell Smith Publisher Comments Reporting for the Los Angeles Times on the international blind tasting competition held annually in Amsterdam known as the Cannabis Cup, novelist Mark Haskell Smith sampled a variety of marijuana that was unlike anything he’d experienced. It... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Storming Heaven by Jay Stevens Publisher Comments For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of humankind (a belief that led to his being branded "the most dangerous man in America"); for Ken... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blow by Bruce Porter Publisher Comments BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone Publisher Comments Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lecture in Outhern Hitory) by Pete Daniel Publisher Comments Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences #10) by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cannabis Companion: the Ultimate Guide To Connoisseurship by Steven Wishnia Publisher Comments This innovative, one-of-a-kind compendium is decidedly upscale. It treats cannabis as just another fine thing to be savored, like a great wine, good cigar, gourmet chocolate, or single malt scotch. Author Steven Wishnia, a former senior editor at High... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mushroom Magick: A Visionary Field Guide by Arik M Roper Publisher Comments For centuries hallucinogenic mushrooms have participated in a sublime relationship with humankind, thanks to their psychoactive chemicals that shift and modify the human mind. Arik Roper's exquisite painted portraits of magic mushrooms illustrate more... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Great Book of Hemp by Rowan Robinson Publisher Comments This handsomely illustrated and entertaining book is the most complete guide yet written on Cannabis sativa. Here you will find history, current uses, organizations involved in legalization, product suppliers, bibliography, and much more. Robinson... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unlikely Brothers: Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and Redemption by John Prendergast Publisher Comments “You don’t look like brothers . . .” Peace activist and cofounder of the Enough Project, John Prendergast is known as a champion of human rights in Africa. But the not-so-public face of J.P. is the life he’s led as a Big... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pot, Inc.: Inside Medical Marijuana, America's Most Outlaw Industry by Greg Campbell Publisher Comments Greg Campbell, coauthor of the bestselling Flawless and Blood Diamonds, presents a compelling, close-up investigation of a hot-button topic: America's schizophrenic attitude to the legalization of pot. Campbell, a suburban father whose biggest vice... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Ashes to ashes :America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger Publisher Comments No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany by Adriano Sack Staff Pick You're sitting at a bar with friends, and the conversation hits a lull. Someone excuses herself to get the next round and buy some time. But you don't need it, because you've read The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends and you're loaded with an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Americas black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Your Brain Is God by Timothy Leary Synopsis This collection of essays, written by the poster boy of 1960s counterculture, describes the psychological journey Timothy Leary made in the years following his dismissal from Harvard, as his psychedelic research moved from the scientific to the religious... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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America Walks Into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops by Christine Sismondo Publisher Comments When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography by Dominic Streatfeild Publisher Comments The story of cocaine isnt just about crime and profit; its about psychoanalysis, about empire building, about exploitation, emancipation, and, ultimately, about power. To tell the story of the twentieth century without reference to this drug and its... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Turn on Tune in Drop Out by Timothy Leary Synopsis Written in the psychedelic era, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out is Timothy Leary at his best, beckoning with humor and irreverence, a vision of individual empowerment, personal responsibility, and spiritual awakening. Includes: o Start Your Own Religion o... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reefer Madness: The History of Marijuana in America by Larry Ratso Sloman Publisher Comments Reefer Madness, a classic in the annals of hemp literature, is the popular social history of marijuana use in America. Beginning with the hemp farming if George Washington, author Larry Ratso Sloman traces the fascinating story of our nation's love-hate... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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