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Reefer Gladness: Stories, Essays, and Riffs on Marijuana
Bestselling author Michael Konik ( The Man with the $100,000 Breasts; Ella in Europe; The Smart Money ) abstained from using, or even trying, marijuana until he was nearly 40. Then he went to Amsterdam.
No longer able to dismiss pot as an herbal evil, he began to celebrate its salutary effects. Seven years later, Konik has penned a provocative and intelligent examination of America's most politically potent plant.
Reefer Stories, Essays, and Riffs on Marijuana explores this emotionally charged subject through an innovative lens. It's an entertaining, elegant, and consistently heady study of a simple weed with the power to transform American society.
Konik's pungent prose provides a literary contact high. His vivid characters, the regular (and irregular) people from every stratum of society who make marijuana a part of their lives, blaze off the page. Reefer Gladness is nonfiction and fiction, humorous and serious, a fascinating hybrid of reality and imagination. It's a great read--whether or not you enjoy marijuana.
No longer able to dismiss pot as an herbal evil, he began to celebrate its salutary effects. Seven years later, Konik has penned a provocative and intelligent examination of America's most politically potent plant.
Reefer Stories, Essays, and Riffs on Marijuana explores this emotionally charged subject through an innovative lens. It's an entertaining, elegant, and consistently heady study of a simple weed with the power to transform American society.
Konik's pungent prose provides a literary contact high. His vivid characters, the regular (and irregular) people from every stratum of society who make marijuana a part of their lives, blaze off the page. Reefer Gladness is nonfiction and fiction, humorous and serious, a fascinating hybrid of reality and imagination. It's a great read--whether or not you enjoy marijuana.
232 pages, Paperback
First published October 4, 2010
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Michael Konik
25 books21 followersBased in Southern California, Michael Konik is a writer, composer, record producer, artist, improviser, former television personality, unusually articulate stoner, burgeoning thought leader and generally decent person.
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September 13, 2010
I got an advanced copy of this book, and can I just say: I don't even smoke weed and this book was still extremely entertaining. The short story format totally works; nothing is ever too long. The last story is the by far the best, and I hate to admit it, but it kind of made me want to try smoking! I totally recommend this book.
December 17, 2012
The cannabis tide is shifting. The light is shining.
This book was there at the start. The ideas (explored in stories, essays, and riffs) here were formerly provocative and cutting-edge; now they simply seem to make sense. I'm proud to have been one of the conversation-starters.
This book was there at the start. The ideas (explored in stories, essays, and riffs) here were formerly provocative and cutting-edge; now they simply seem to make sense. I'm proud to have been one of the conversation-starters.
March 4, 2013
A fun, sometimes thought provoking book. A little scattered at times, and it certainly doesn't make a scholarly case for marijuana reform, but it does offer a much-needed, non-alarmist take on marijuana use.
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