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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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California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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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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The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord by Malcolm Beith Synopsis The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is among the worlds ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazines 2009 billionaire list. With his... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy by Cynthia Kuhn Publisher Comments Together, the first two editions of Buzzedhave sold over 120,000 copies'"and now the authors have revised and updated the book to include the most recent discoveries about drugs, including new information on the energy drinks craze, prescription drugs... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Drugs by Leslie Iversen Publisher Comments The twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and mental illnesses. These, along with the introduction of the oral... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons by Luca Rastello Publisher Comments A page-turning account of the international cocaine trade, presented as five lessons in how to move tons of the drug across borders Forget about cocaine concealed in false-bottomed suitcases or swallowed in ovules resistant to gastric juices. When... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dope Girls the Birth of the British DR by Marek Kohn Publisher Comments As entertaining as it is enlightening, Dope Girls vividly records the scandals and moral panics in Britain that followed the end of the First World War, as drug use—especially of morphine and cocaine—was transformed into a national menace... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Joint Rolling Handbook: Back to Basics by Bobcat Synopsis Featuring the basic "Saturday Night Special" to the complex "Crossroads" and even the decadent "Cannabis Cigar," this book shows potheads, from newbies to seasoned aficionados, how to roll the perfect joint. With easy-to-follow instructions and detailed... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America by Ryan Grim Publisher Comments Seven surprising consequences of the U.S. approach to drugs—find out the facts in THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY ON DRUGS Past antidrug campaigns actually encouraged drug use. A few years ago, America stopped dropping acid altogether. The meth epidemic... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Hunt for Khun Sa: Drug Lord of the Golden Triangle by Ron Felber Publisher Comments For two decades, the Burmese warlord Khun Sa controlled nearly 70 percent of the worlds heroin supply, yet there has been little written about the legend the U.S. State Department branded the “most evil man in the world”—until now... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Change Your Brain by Timothy Leary Synopsis This book tells the inside story of Leary's early LSD research at Harvard. Known throughout the world as the guru who encouraged an entire generation to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," he draws on wit, humor, and skepticism to debunk the power of... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Musings on Human Metamorphoses by Timothy Leary Synopsis In these collected essays, Timothy Leary explains his belief that humans are morphing into space beings. He describes eight circuits of human metamorphosis, analyzing in depth the consciousness — and its purpose — manifested by each change... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ecstasy: Its History and Lore by Miriam Joseph Publisher Comments Drugs are both vilified -- in newspaper headlines and public health broadcasts -- and glorified -- in film, music and fashion. They continue to fascinate and horrify, in equal measure, and remain perhaps the issue of the twentieth century. This series... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Timothy Leary: A Biography by Robert Greenfield Publisher Comments In the first major biography of Timothy Leary, Robert Greenfield immerses the reader in the life and times of a compelling but troubled American icon. To a generation in open revolt against any form of authority, “Tune in, turn on, drop out”... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture by Richard Degrandpre Publisher Comments America had a radically different relationship with drugs a century ago. Drug prohibitions were few, and while alcohol was considered a menace, the public regularly consumed substances that are widely demonized today. Heroin was marketed by Bayer... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain Publisher Comments Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full and astounding story — part of it hidden till... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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