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Twitter is mostly there to manipulate our emotions, harvest our data, and sabotage our politics. But the other day it actually did something pretty cool: it produced one of the best reading lists on cannabis I’ve seen in a while. Forbes writer Katie Shapiro got things started by Tweeting a link to her own list of favorite weed reads (where I was very grateful to see Grass Roots!).
Then, cannabis historian David A. Guba chimed in with some titles he thought had been overlooked. Others responded with their own books and recs, and voila, the most BA cannabis reading list in the last several years was born. Here it is, in its entirety, all because a growing community of cannabis writers decided to stave off the doldrums of quarantine on the world’s worst website.
First, Shapiro’s list (more info in her original post):
- Joe Dolce, Brave New Weed (2016)
- Alex Halperin, The Cannabis Dictionary (2020)
- Steve DeAngelo, The Cannabis Manifesto (2015)
- Nick Johnson, Grass Roots: A History of Cannabis in the American West (2017)
- Dan Michaels and Erik Christiansen, Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana (2014)
- Lizzie Post, Higher Etiquette (2019)
- David Bienenstock, How To Smoke Pot (Properly) (2016)
- Keith Stroup, It’s NORML to Smoke Pot (2013)
- Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness (2003)
- Jamie Evans, The Ultimate Guide to CBD (2020)
Now, throw in Guba’s academic additions, and some from the replies:
- Emily Dufton, Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America (2017)
- Isaac Campos, Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs (2012)
- James Mills, Cannabis Britannica (2003) and Cannabis Nation (2013)
- Lina Britto, Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise (2020)
- Ryan Stoa, Craft Weed: Family Farming and the Future of the Marijuana Industry (2018)
And finally, a set of my own recs, reviewed here and elsewhere:
- Chris Duvall, Cannabis (2015) and The African Roots of Marijuana (2019)
- Robert C. Clarke and Mark Merlin, Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany (2013)
- Bruce Barcott, Weed the People (2015)
- James F. Hopkins, A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky (1951)
- Leonard Leinow and Juliana Birnbaum, CBD: A Patient’s Guide to Medicinal Cannabis (2017)
- Char Miller, ed., Where There’s Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana (2018)
- Jim Rendon, Super Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana (2012)