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SMOKE SIGNALS : A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MARIJUANA , MEDICAL , RECREATIONAL, AND SCIENTIFIC
SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARTIN LEE
By Martin Lee ( Author of Acid Dreams )
Published by
2012 First Edition First Printing
This thick book is a HARDCOVER in near fine condition with a total of 519 pages with 66 pages of notes, 15 pages of bibliography, 26 pages of index and also appendixes and with black and whites photographs.
The dust jacket is also in near fine condition.
MARIHUANA , Cannabis , Hashish , HASHEESH
CONTENTS
Prologue
1.HERBLORE
Black and Blue
Elixirs and Tinctures
High on Hash
Sex, Drugs, and the Occult
2. PROHIBITION
The Mexican Connection
The Mighty Mezz
Voodoo Pharmacology
A Truth Drug
Cold War Cannabis
Writing the Reality Script
3. REEFER REBELLION
Seeds of Change
The Riddle of THC
Grass and Acid
A Tipping Point
Legalize It!
Flower Power
High Spies
4. THE BIG CHILL
This Means War
Dr. Mikuriya's Medicine
The Euphoria of Secrecy
Seeing Is Believing
Rasta Vibration
In Your Face
5. JUST SAY NEVER
Reefer Sadness
The Laughing Cure
Home Grown
Going Dutch
Drug-War Doublespeak
The Hemperor
6. FROM BLUNTS TO BALLOTS
George Bush v. Weed
The Brain and Marijuana
Hip-Hop Hemp
To Live and Die in
The Pot Club
Crossing the Rubicon
7. FIRE IN THE BELLY
Counterattack
Unchartered Waters
Southern Exposure
Falling Dominos
The Stake-Out
Veterans for Drug-War Peace
8. GROUND ZERO
Narcs Gone Wild!
Show Trials
Physicians in the Crosshairs
The Supreme Court Punts
The Long Arm of the DEA
Ten Years After
9. MELLOW MAYHEM
Senior Stoners
An Industry Emerges
Healing Without the High
Booze or Bud?
The Green Rush
Suffer the Children
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Appendices
Index
FROM THE COVER == A bestselling author of ACID DREAMS tells the great American pot story a panoramic, character-driven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimensions of the world's most controversial plant.
Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased. Lee describes how the illicit marijuana subculture overcame government opposition and morphed into a dynamic, multibillion-dollar industry.
In 1996,
Lee, an award-winning investigative journalist, draws attention to underreported scientific breakthroughs that are reshaping the therapeutic landscape.
By mining the plant's rich pharmacopoeia, medical researchers have developed promising treatments for cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, chronic pain, and many other conditions that are beyond the reach of conventional cures.
Colorful, illuminating, and at times irreverent, this is a fascinating read for recreational users and patients, students and doctors, musicians and accountants, Baby Boomers and their kids, and anyone who has ever wondered about the secret life of this ubiquitous herb.
Martin Lee is the author of three previous books, including Acid Dreams (with co-author Bruce Shlain) and The Beast Reawakens. He is the cofounder and director of Project CBD, an educational service that reports on developments in cannabis science and therapeutics.
Martin Lee is also an investigative journalist whose articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, The Nation and other magazines, He is the winner of four Hopwood Awards.
Advance Praise for Smoke Signals
"Smoke Signals is an important, serious-minded look at the role cannabis has played in American history. It tackles the hard issues of marijuana prohibition with keen insight and righteous indignation. I agree with Lee's central premise that our marijuana laws are draconian. Every American should read this landmark book!" — Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at
"A ripping read, thoroughly researched, Smoke Signals will help inform the current debate and hopefully hasten the demise of prohibition." — David Bronner, CEO, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
Praise for Acid Dreams
"Engaging throughout . . . at once entertaining and disturbing." —
"An engrossing account of a period . . . when a tiny psychoactive molecule affected almost every aspect of Western life." — William S. Burroughs
"A generalist's history that should replace all others." —
"Recounts some of the most bizarre incidents in the history of U.S. intelligence." — The
"An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era." — John Sayles
MORE ABOUT == Martin A. Lee is an American author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues, and drug politics. Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the
He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the
Lee was a co-founder of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a group formed in 1986 to combat corporate and establishment media bias.
He was the first full-time editor of FAIR's magazine Extra!, and later served as the publication's publisher.
Lee's first book, Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion (co-authored with Bruce Shlain), was published in 1985 by Grove Press. Covering LSD's use by both the counterculture of the 1960s and by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in mind control experiments, the book was called by the San Francisco Chronicle "a generalist's history that should replace all others."
Lee's second book, Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media (co-authored with Norman Solomon), was both a distillation and expansion of his work with FAIR. Published in 1990 by Lyle Stuart, The Washington Post called the book "a worthy addition to the library of any student of American news media, social structure and political science."
Lee's third book, The Beast Reawakens, an in-depth examination of the resurgence of fascism, was published by Little, Brown in 1997; a revised paperback edition was issued by Routledge in 2000. Calling it a "compelling, intelligent investigation which reads more like a thriller than a history lesson," Publishers Weekly said it "contributes much toward understanding the politics of hatred." The New York Times Book Review described it as "a vivid survey of fascist resurgence."
Bibliography
1985 – Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion – co-authored with Bruce Shlain
1990 – Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media – co-authored with Norman Solomon
1997 – The Beast Reawakens
2000 – The Beast Reawakens (revised paperback edition)
2012 – "Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
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