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Seeing through the Smoke: A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth about Marijuana
Depending on which doctor you speak with, or which websites you read, cannabis could be an appealing, low-risk medicine – even an aid to wellness – or an insidiously addictive drug rotting the brains of our youth. This dissonance confuses young people, distressed patients, and paralyzes politicians, all while inviting dubious sources of information and resulting in uninformed choices, enhanced polarization, and a fragmented national policy.
Seeing Through the Smoke is an unflinching examination at the grossly misunderstood drug that uses data-driven medical science and a critical historical perspective to reveal the truth behind cannabis. In this balanced and measured investigation, Cannabis specialist and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School Dr. Peter Grinspoon untangles the reality behind cannabis, revealing how we ended up with radically divergent understandings of the drug and pointing a way toward a middle ground that we can all share.
Moving through an illuminating tour of the social history and the medical science behind cannabis, Grinspoon unpacks the layers of disinformation left by a sordid history of government propaganda, racial suppression, and indifference from the medical community to answer questions
Is cannabis addictive?What are its best-established medical uses? Can cannabis help cure cancer? How does cannabis affect memory? How dangerous is cannabis for teens? Is cannabis a safer treatment for ADHD and PTSD? What exactly is CBD and how is it different from marijuana?What are the most concerning side effects?
By focusing on the most critical purported harms—driving, pregnancy, addictiveness, memory—and by focusing on the most commonly cited medical benefits—relieving chronic pain, sleep, anxiety, PTSD, autism, and cancer—Seeing Through the Smoke will help patients, parents, doctors, health experts, regulators, and politicians move beyond biased perceptions and arrive at a shared reality towards cannabis.
Seeing Through the Smoke is an unflinching examination at the grossly misunderstood drug that uses data-driven medical science and a critical historical perspective to reveal the truth behind cannabis. In this balanced and measured investigation, Cannabis specialist and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School Dr. Peter Grinspoon untangles the reality behind cannabis, revealing how we ended up with radically divergent understandings of the drug and pointing a way toward a middle ground that we can all share.
Moving through an illuminating tour of the social history and the medical science behind cannabis, Grinspoon unpacks the layers of disinformation left by a sordid history of government propaganda, racial suppression, and indifference from the medical community to answer questions
Is cannabis addictive?What are its best-established medical uses? Can cannabis help cure cancer? How does cannabis affect memory? How dangerous is cannabis for teens? Is cannabis a safer treatment for ADHD and PTSD? What exactly is CBD and how is it different from marijuana?What are the most concerning side effects?
By focusing on the most critical purported harms—driving, pregnancy, addictiveness, memory—and by focusing on the most commonly cited medical benefits—relieving chronic pain, sleep, anxiety, PTSD, autism, and cancer—Seeing Through the Smoke will help patients, parents, doctors, health experts, regulators, and politicians move beyond biased perceptions and arrive at a shared reality towards cannabis.
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January 24, 2024
Let's Go Get Stoned
He treats some of his patience with marijuana. That is a good thing if they need it. For it has mini medicinal Properties. It can help you sleep, get rid of nausea, and pain. I tried medical marijuana for sleep. It was too strong. I laid in Bed and hallucinated strange objects. Then I felt every pain in my body. Pain I didn't know I had. Every night I lower the dose until I was taking nothing. The same thing happened. $400 for a medical card hundred dollars for the bottle of liquid gold. I dumped it down the drain and save the bottle the bottle is now worth $500.
Marijuana makes you creative he says. You wouldn't even have to take a creative writing class if you smoke marijuana or ate it. When I lived in Berkeley they had mild marijuana. I smoked some pot and decided that I would try My hand at creative writing. I sat down and wrote. The next morning I Learned that what I had written did not make sense.
I feel like the author is rather biased. He puts down all research but his own. Propaganda he says. It just isn't for me. I like my normal mind and don't like to be stoned. I like the control, to be able to say I'm done now I wanna be normal. That doesn't work. But if marijuana works for you then that is good. It can be a god send.
He treats some of his patience with marijuana. That is a good thing if they need it. For it has mini medicinal Properties. It can help you sleep, get rid of nausea, and pain. I tried medical marijuana for sleep. It was too strong. I laid in Bed and hallucinated strange objects. Then I felt every pain in my body. Pain I didn't know I had. Every night I lower the dose until I was taking nothing. The same thing happened. $400 for a medical card hundred dollars for the bottle of liquid gold. I dumped it down the drain and save the bottle the bottle is now worth $500.
Marijuana makes you creative he says. You wouldn't even have to take a creative writing class if you smoke marijuana or ate it. When I lived in Berkeley they had mild marijuana. I smoked some pot and decided that I would try My hand at creative writing. I sat down and wrote. The next morning I Learned that what I had written did not make sense.
I feel like the author is rather biased. He puts down all research but his own. Propaganda he says. It just isn't for me. I like my normal mind and don't like to be stoned. I like the control, to be able to say I'm done now I wanna be normal. That doesn't work. But if marijuana works for you then that is good. It can be a god send.
May 14, 2023
As a substance abuse researcher, I’m still flummoxed at why cannabis is illegal, given the potential benefits it has for so many somatic and neurological conditions. Grinspoon is an expert who definitely holds nothing back when it comes to the wonderful world of cannabis!
May 10, 2023
It's actually a 4.5 rating just because he throws in some political pokes that were unnecessary to make his point.
It's a fantastic book with very clear pros and cons. A reality check for people both for and against full access to cannabis.
As someone that was diagnosed with Lupus in 2012 and have managed to get off some very potent and destructive medications through nutrition and CBD there's parts of this book that hit very close to home. More research is needed. I thought I'd done extensive research, but I learned a few things and saw a few others from a different perspective.
No matter your position, this is a great read!
It's a fantastic book with very clear pros and cons. A reality check for people both for and against full access to cannabis.
As someone that was diagnosed with Lupus in 2012 and have managed to get off some very potent and destructive medications through nutrition and CBD there's parts of this book that hit very close to home. More research is needed. I thought I'd done extensive research, but I learned a few things and saw a few others from a different perspective.
No matter your position, this is a great read!
December 29, 2023
A very clear and concise exploration of cannabis medicine and recreational weed. It explores the pros and cons in a balanced manner.
November 30, 2024
I respect and appreciate Dr. Grinspoon’s perspective on medicinal uses for cannabis. His observations about the political climate around cannabis use are spot-on. Very helpful read for those in the cannabis space - from regulators to consumers and everywhere in between.
October 2, 2023
Thorough medical overview written for the lay person but addresses all the benefits, as well as potential risks for marijuana. I enjoyed the personal anecdotes, humor, history of marijuana in the medical/research field and legal hurdles that go along with it. I was particularly interested in how and why medical marijuana helps with PTSD and I got the answers I had hoped for in this book.
July 22, 2023
Great book
Everyone needs to read this very insightful book on Cannabis. This book looks at both sides. Did you know that the ECS is not taught in Medical school? Please pickup a copy and get informed about this plant.
Everyone needs to read this very insightful book on Cannabis. This book looks at both sides. Did you know that the ECS is not taught in Medical school? Please pickup a copy and get informed about this plant.
May 26, 2025
During the 20th century, few scholars published books about cannabis. The best known is the 1971 trailblazer by Lester Grinspoon, MD, “Marihuana Reconsidered.” Our 21st century has been treated to a relative bounty of cannabis scholarship. Among the cornucopia is “The Pot Book,” an anthology published in 2010 just before the wildfire of legalization had ignited in the U.S. and Canada. None other than Dr. Grinspoon wrote the foreword. Among its contributors is the renowned Andrew Weil, MD. In full circle, Dr. Weil wrote the foreword to a new book by Lester’s son, Peter. With the publication in 2023 of “Seeing through the Smoke” by Peter Grinspoon, MD, let’s welcome our century’s definitive scholarly book about cannabis.
True to the adage that an apple does not fall far from its tree, Peter continued his father’s research into “the family herb” (page 367) and his advocacy for its acceptances both by their own medical profession and by our own civil society. Having passed on the torch lighter to his son, the recently deceased dad would have been heartened to know that his family’s legacy continues.
Writing in a conversational and engaging style, Peter couples solid science with personal anecdotes, and tempers cold hard facts with his informed opinions. Bibliographic endnotes document the text, yet scholarly research rarely impedes the flow of the narrative. While credentialed as an MD, Grinspoon is no stuffy pedantic academic. As an undergrad lit major and grad student in philosophy, the medical doctor taps into his creative inner writer throughout the book.
With wit and charm, he lightens the mood with colloquialisms and vernacular expressions. For instances: “OK, not really!” (page 56); “a big nothingburger” (page 148); “You can’t make this up!” (page 283); “If you ask me,” (page 290); “Egg, meet chicken.” (page 294); “Just kidding.” (page 303); “Now that is interesting.” (page 309); and like on an Instagram video, “Wait for it!” (page 328).
Equally endearing are the one-word sentences sprinkled throughout: “Snore.” (page 75); “Bleh.” (page 144); “Easy.” (page 246); and my favorite, “Yuck.” (page 311). Humor, albeit sometimes sardonic or sarcastic, abounds in passages too long to quote here. And there’s winsome self-parody and social satire. One paragraph was prefaced as a “Mini Ted Talk” (page 42), and another as “mini-pontification” (page 141). Acknowledging his laziness to research a definition, he quipped, “Thank you, Wikipedia” (page186).
Some of the book is akin to a lively debate staged between two opposing teams, namely the “Reefer Pessimism” portrayed in Chapter 2 versus the “Cannatopianism” depicted in Chapter 3. The author objectively summarizes both sides of the many contentious issues surrounding cannabis. While not shunning from controversy, he sometimes even reconciles the otherwise conflicting evidence. In the final chapter, Chapter 22, he issues a rallying cry for the pundits on both sides of that debate to remove their “cognitive filters” (page 361).
Chapter 4, “Doctors and the War on Drugs,” brands this MD as a heretic within his courtly profession. Nevertheless, he is respectful of and circumspect about his medical colleagues’ ignorance or skepticism regarding cannabis as a therapeutic herb. He lays blame mostly on the institutional bias of the old school medical schools whose curriculums are still teaching politically motivated falsehoods. In the United States, the falsehoods were propagandized during the losing War on Drugs waged by the Nixon administration, then were escalated into the lost War on Weed waged by the Reagan administration, and under the present Biden administration are still soldiered on by diehards and holdovers within the DEA, the FDA, and NIDA. If your own doctors plead ignorance about medical marijuana, bestow upon them copies of this book. If you must be thrifty, then make them photocopies of just Chapters 4 and 22.
Chapter 9 asks in its title the question, “People Get Addicted to Weed?” While it documents that addiction is real and does occur among some potheads, it provides ample evidence debunking the myth of the high rates publicized by government officials and addiction authorities. Some statistics claim that a whopping 30-percent of users become addicted. Grinspoon shows how the research is manipulated and the numbers are fudged. Makes me exhale a sigh of relief.
Chapter 21, as if channeling Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” could be subtitled, “Ode to Pot.” It begins with several questions, among them, “Why do people use cannabis?” and “What is its appeal?” Grinspoon eloquently and astutely answers his probing questions by exploring the “false dichotomy” between medicinal and recreational use. As though to placate those impatient among us who crave short answers, the chapter concludes: “Is cannabis a shortcut? That’s complicated. Is it harmless? No. Does it work for people? A resounding yes!”
Chapter 22, the final chapter, is the crowning highpoint of the book. In case you die tomorrow, you might want to first read this chapter today. The author calls upon science to free itself of government politics and corporate interests. He implores politicians, doctors, medical researchers, and the news media that reports the research, all to “forgo all the myths and superstitions of the past … manufactured with an agenda.” (pages 340 and 341).
The first cannabinoid in cannabis was discovered in 1963, while the endocannabinoid system (ECS) lurking within all our bodies was discovered in 1988. Liberated from the constraints of prohibitionist Drug War mentality, medical science is only beginning to learn that our ECS couples with the dozens of cannabinoids lurking within cannabis. What’s more, “The more we learn, the less we seem to know.” (page 341).
Chapter 14, “The Endocannabinoid System: Our Brain on Drugs,” warrants reading by all potheads who have ever wondered what’s going on inside their potted heads. This chapter within its sharply focused eleven pages explains the ECS better than did an entire book and the many articles that I have read on the subject. Unfortunately, other chapters are not as succinct. Too much of a good thing is not a good thing. Like most of us, especially those of us who sit on our duffs reading books, this book could lose some weight.
Confession. I did not read one-quarter of the book. Its scope is too encyclopedic and some discussions too detailed for even this omnivorous reader to consume in its entirety. I did read the chapters whose subjects interested me. Those on topics outside the orbit of my small world I omitted, just as I would not read from cover-to-cover any single volume of a thirty-volume encyclopedia. Hence, I skipped the chapters on use during pregnancy (I’m male), on use by teenagers (I’m already old), and on any link with psychosis (I’m already looney). Likewise, I dropped from my reading syllabus the chapters on using medical marijuana to treat for insomnia (I’m a sound sleeper), for autism (I’m childless), and for symptoms from cancer and for side effects from chemo (I’m planning on dying, just not of cancer).
Among the three-quarters that I did read, the author’s exhaustive analyses sometimes exhausted me. The book is grouped into four parts. Grinspoon shines in Parts One and Four, where he engages the reader in a friendly conversation as he recounts both past history and current research. In Parts Two and Three, however, momentum slackens when Grinspoon meticulously picks apart and pokes holes into long excerpts from scientific studies. Readers should tread lightly upon those overquoted studies. For our convenience, the excerpts are idented and their font size reduced, so easy to pick out. And to leave out.
Barbers cannot give themselves haircuts. For superfluous text and overweight chapters, I lay blame on the publisher, not on the author. Akin to an uncut and unpolished diamond, this very good book could be transformed into a very great book with some judicious deletions. Too late now for this hardbound tome at hand, but not too late for a revised and leaner paperback edition that could appeal to the wider audience that it deserves. Until then, this sprawling big fat book is still worth reading. I just wish there were less of it to read. And if you persevered this far, you probably wish this review were shorter, too.
True to the adage that an apple does not fall far from its tree, Peter continued his father’s research into “the family herb” (page 367) and his advocacy for its acceptances both by their own medical profession and by our own civil society. Having passed on the torch lighter to his son, the recently deceased dad would have been heartened to know that his family’s legacy continues.
Writing in a conversational and engaging style, Peter couples solid science with personal anecdotes, and tempers cold hard facts with his informed opinions. Bibliographic endnotes document the text, yet scholarly research rarely impedes the flow of the narrative. While credentialed as an MD, Grinspoon is no stuffy pedantic academic. As an undergrad lit major and grad student in philosophy, the medical doctor taps into his creative inner writer throughout the book.
With wit and charm, he lightens the mood with colloquialisms and vernacular expressions. For instances: “OK, not really!” (page 56); “a big nothingburger” (page 148); “You can’t make this up!” (page 283); “If you ask me,” (page 290); “Egg, meet chicken.” (page 294); “Just kidding.” (page 303); “Now that is interesting.” (page 309); and like on an Instagram video, “Wait for it!” (page 328).
Equally endearing are the one-word sentences sprinkled throughout: “Snore.” (page 75); “Bleh.” (page 144); “Easy.” (page 246); and my favorite, “Yuck.” (page 311). Humor, albeit sometimes sardonic or sarcastic, abounds in passages too long to quote here. And there’s winsome self-parody and social satire. One paragraph was prefaced as a “Mini Ted Talk” (page 42), and another as “mini-pontification” (page 141). Acknowledging his laziness to research a definition, he quipped, “Thank you, Wikipedia” (page186).
Some of the book is akin to a lively debate staged between two opposing teams, namely the “Reefer Pessimism” portrayed in Chapter 2 versus the “Cannatopianism” depicted in Chapter 3. The author objectively summarizes both sides of the many contentious issues surrounding cannabis. While not shunning from controversy, he sometimes even reconciles the otherwise conflicting evidence. In the final chapter, Chapter 22, he issues a rallying cry for the pundits on both sides of that debate to remove their “cognitive filters” (page 361).
Chapter 4, “Doctors and the War on Drugs,” brands this MD as a heretic within his courtly profession. Nevertheless, he is respectful of and circumspect about his medical colleagues’ ignorance or skepticism regarding cannabis as a therapeutic herb. He lays blame mostly on the institutional bias of the old school medical schools whose curriculums are still teaching politically motivated falsehoods. In the United States, the falsehoods were propagandized during the losing War on Drugs waged by the Nixon administration, then were escalated into the lost War on Weed waged by the Reagan administration, and under the present Biden administration are still soldiered on by diehards and holdovers within the DEA, the FDA, and NIDA. If your own doctors plead ignorance about medical marijuana, bestow upon them copies of this book. If you must be thrifty, then make them photocopies of just Chapters 4 and 22.
Chapter 9 asks in its title the question, “People Get Addicted to Weed?” While it documents that addiction is real and does occur among some potheads, it provides ample evidence debunking the myth of the high rates publicized by government officials and addiction authorities. Some statistics claim that a whopping 30-percent of users become addicted. Grinspoon shows how the research is manipulated and the numbers are fudged. Makes me exhale a sigh of relief.
Chapter 21, as if channeling Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” could be subtitled, “Ode to Pot.” It begins with several questions, among them, “Why do people use cannabis?” and “What is its appeal?” Grinspoon eloquently and astutely answers his probing questions by exploring the “false dichotomy” between medicinal and recreational use. As though to placate those impatient among us who crave short answers, the chapter concludes: “Is cannabis a shortcut? That’s complicated. Is it harmless? No. Does it work for people? A resounding yes!”
Chapter 22, the final chapter, is the crowning highpoint of the book. In case you die tomorrow, you might want to first read this chapter today. The author calls upon science to free itself of government politics and corporate interests. He implores politicians, doctors, medical researchers, and the news media that reports the research, all to “forgo all the myths and superstitions of the past … manufactured with an agenda.” (pages 340 and 341).
The first cannabinoid in cannabis was discovered in 1963, while the endocannabinoid system (ECS) lurking within all our bodies was discovered in 1988. Liberated from the constraints of prohibitionist Drug War mentality, medical science is only beginning to learn that our ECS couples with the dozens of cannabinoids lurking within cannabis. What’s more, “The more we learn, the less we seem to know.” (page 341).
Chapter 14, “The Endocannabinoid System: Our Brain on Drugs,” warrants reading by all potheads who have ever wondered what’s going on inside their potted heads. This chapter within its sharply focused eleven pages explains the ECS better than did an entire book and the many articles that I have read on the subject. Unfortunately, other chapters are not as succinct. Too much of a good thing is not a good thing. Like most of us, especially those of us who sit on our duffs reading books, this book could lose some weight.
Confession. I did not read one-quarter of the book. Its scope is too encyclopedic and some discussions too detailed for even this omnivorous reader to consume in its entirety. I did read the chapters whose subjects interested me. Those on topics outside the orbit of my small world I omitted, just as I would not read from cover-to-cover any single volume of a thirty-volume encyclopedia. Hence, I skipped the chapters on use during pregnancy (I’m male), on use by teenagers (I’m already old), and on any link with psychosis (I’m already looney). Likewise, I dropped from my reading syllabus the chapters on using medical marijuana to treat for insomnia (I’m a sound sleeper), for autism (I’m childless), and for symptoms from cancer and for side effects from chemo (I’m planning on dying, just not of cancer).
Among the three-quarters that I did read, the author’s exhaustive analyses sometimes exhausted me. The book is grouped into four parts. Grinspoon shines in Parts One and Four, where he engages the reader in a friendly conversation as he recounts both past history and current research. In Parts Two and Three, however, momentum slackens when Grinspoon meticulously picks apart and pokes holes into long excerpts from scientific studies. Readers should tread lightly upon those overquoted studies. For our convenience, the excerpts are idented and their font size reduced, so easy to pick out. And to leave out.
Barbers cannot give themselves haircuts. For superfluous text and overweight chapters, I lay blame on the publisher, not on the author. Akin to an uncut and unpolished diamond, this very good book could be transformed into a very great book with some judicious deletions. Too late now for this hardbound tome at hand, but not too late for a revised and leaner paperback edition that could appeal to the wider audience that it deserves. Until then, this sprawling big fat book is still worth reading. I just wish there were less of it to read. And if you persevered this far, you probably wish this review were shorter, too.
November 21, 2025
I thought that this was a very good book. It's definitely worth the read for anyone who's looking to learn more about marijuana. I originally picked up this book because of the foreword by Dr. Andrew Weil. I have seen some videos of him speaking for a class I took in college, so I knew this book would have some good insight on marijuana. The author, Dr. Peter Grinspoon does a wonderful job of listing the pros and cons of marijuana. This is a lengthier book which is a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. The author explains everything very thoroughly. However, I think there were times that he took a bit longer getting to the point than he needed to.
One thing that I liked about this book was the author's personal experience with marijuana. I believe that's essential to be able to really speak about marijuana. The author goes into detail about the positive impact marijuana has had on his own life. The author's family also has a personal relationship with marijuana since his father studied marijuana, and marijuana played a key role in allowing his older brother to be more comfortable as he was battling cancer. Despite the author seeing the many benefits marijuana could have, the author is able to remain unbiased.
The author is able to point out the many positives of marijuana such as when it is used medicinally with cancer patients. The author also goes into some of the history of marijuana such as how it's been used for about 5,000 years now. The author also mentions how the views of marijuana have changed over the years and the impact that the War on Drugs has had on people's lives. However, the author acknowledges there are some cons to marijuana such as marijuana that shouldn't be used before driving. The author also warns that marijuana shouldn't be used by teens who still have developing brains since not enough is known about the long-term effects. The author also proposed certain areas where more research should be conducted on marijuana, such as with individuals with autism. Other interesting topics covered were marijuana's effect on insomnia and ADHD. It could be a bit dry to read, but it's definitely a very interesting read.
One thing that I liked about this book was the author's personal experience with marijuana. I believe that's essential to be able to really speak about marijuana. The author goes into detail about the positive impact marijuana has had on his own life. The author's family also has a personal relationship with marijuana since his father studied marijuana, and marijuana played a key role in allowing his older brother to be more comfortable as he was battling cancer. Despite the author seeing the many benefits marijuana could have, the author is able to remain unbiased.
The author is able to point out the many positives of marijuana such as when it is used medicinally with cancer patients. The author also goes into some of the history of marijuana such as how it's been used for about 5,000 years now. The author also mentions how the views of marijuana have changed over the years and the impact that the War on Drugs has had on people's lives. However, the author acknowledges there are some cons to marijuana such as marijuana that shouldn't be used before driving. The author also warns that marijuana shouldn't be used by teens who still have developing brains since not enough is known about the long-term effects. The author also proposed certain areas where more research should be conducted on marijuana, such as with individuals with autism. Other interesting topics covered were marijuana's effect on insomnia and ADHD. It could be a bit dry to read, but it's definitely a very interesting read.
August 12, 2023
The book was informative if you were able to SEE THROUGH the author’s liberal opinions on topics that he thought were interwoven with cannabis.
Once you get through the sea of left-wing nonsense the reader is then expected to comprehend and digest all the different research articles that are cited in every chapter. This book is just one long footnote with a few liberal opinions thrown in for good measure. The one thing that does come across in the book is how cannabis effects the short term memory because of the amount of redundancy that is displayed by the author in each and every chapter. If you are interested in cannabis or the ECS find another book on the shelf.
Once you get through the sea of left-wing nonsense the reader is then expected to comprehend and digest all the different research articles that are cited in every chapter. This book is just one long footnote with a few liberal opinions thrown in for good measure. The one thing that does come across in the book is how cannabis effects the short term memory because of the amount of redundancy that is displayed by the author in each and every chapter. If you are interested in cannabis or the ECS find another book on the shelf.
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July 21, 2025It covered a lot of ground. Would recommend the book to most anyone with an open mind.
Many studies are referenced throughout with a variety of topics explored - driving, breastfeeding, cancer, mental health and ADHD, etc.
Generally balanced but I’m likely bringing some confirmation bias to the table.
Organizationally, the book was laid out well into discrete sections.
Some of the chapters included more thematic sections with headers, in a revised edition, I’d recommend incorporating more headers in the chapters. Also, “what’s next” was less personal and that could be explored further.
Many studies are referenced throughout with a variety of topics explored - driving, breastfeeding, cancer, mental health and ADHD, etc.
Generally balanced but I’m likely bringing some confirmation bias to the table.
Organizationally, the book was laid out well into discrete sections.
Some of the chapters included more thematic sections with headers, in a revised edition, I’d recommend incorporating more headers in the chapters. Also, “what’s next” was less personal and that could be explored further.
June 1, 2023
An in depth look all the history and research into cannabis from a Dr. who has lived through it.To state the obvious, cannabis is NOT for everybody, and he lets you know why. In depth review of how draconian and rascist the War Against Drugs was. Some very amusing tales like his dad smoking cannabis with Carl Sagan in the family residence!
Nothing really new here for me, but if you are new to cannabis , and would like a very detailed view of it's history, this will hit the bill.
Nothing really new here for me, but if you are new to cannabis , and would like a very detailed view of it's history, this will hit the bill.
November 24, 2024
Great book ! Tought me how to correctly use cannabis for recreational purposes ! Improved my quality of life ! Thanks !
October 25, 2025
Says the same thing over and over and over.
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November 13, 2025long ass book i read for a class
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