Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America

By Emily Dufton

Available on Amazon, Thriftbooks. com, and on multiple audiobook streaming services.

In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory 40 years ago, only to encounter a fierce backlash.

In Grass Roots, historian Emily Dufton tells the remarkable story of marijuana’s crooked path from acceptance to demonization and back again, and of the thousands of grassroots activists who made changing marijuana laws their life’s work. During the 1970s, pro-pot campaigners with roots in the counterculture secured the drug’s decriminalization in a dozen states. Soon, though, concerned parents began to mobilize; finding a champion in Nancy Reagan, they transformed pot into a national scourge and helped to pave the way for an aggressive war on drugs.

Chastened marijuana advocates retooled their message, promoting pot as a medical necessity and eventually declaring legalization a matter of racial justice. For the moment, these activists are succeeding – but marijuana’s history suggests how swiftly another counterrevolution could unfold.

Bong Appetit: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Weed: A Cookbook

Written by the editors over at Munchies

Available on Amazon, Ergodebooks. com, and on multiple ebook platforms.

Inspired by the popular MUNCHIES and Viceland television series, Bong Appétit is the Joy of Cooking for a new generation interested in making serious, sophisticated food… with weed. Bong Appétit breaks down the science of infusing (oils, butters, milks, alcohol, and more) with cannabis, and offers recipes ranging from weed butter-basted chicken to weed chimichurri to weed brownie sundaes. Along the way, the book hits on marijuana politics, dosage, and pairing strains and flavors, and has tips from MUNCHIES vast network of friends and experts, including “Bong Appétit” stars Ry Prichard and Vanessa Lavorato.

The Leafly Guide to Cannabis: A Handbook for the Modern Consumer

By The Leafly Team

Available on Amazon and on multiple audiobook and ebook platforms.

Cannabis is at the very beginning of a craft and educational renaissance. It is emerging from the legislative shadows and a second awakening is occurring: People are proactively seeking information about how to properly consume and enjoy it.

And cannabis is a wildly diverse product, even more so than alcohol. Consumers can experience not only different flavor profiles but also different cerebral and body effects; they can consume using different methods, from vaporization to combustion to topical application; and they can pick and choose between an ever-growing number of different strains and products.

The Leafly Guide to Cannabis provides all the best tips to help navigate this growing market in a definitive guide that will enhance every user’s enjoyment and high.

Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana

By Dan Michaels

Photography by Erik Christiansen

Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and on multiple ebook platforms.

Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana is required reading for a new generation of curious and sophisticated pot smokers. Presented in an eye-popping package and filled with hyper detailed photography of individual buds, this essential guide to marijuana is smart, practical, and exceedingly beautiful. The “Primer” section explores the culture of this complex flower and explains the botany that makes each strain unique. The “Buds” section describes the variations of lineage, flavor, and mental or physical high that define 170 exceptional strains. Poised to become the go-to marijuana guide for recreational and medicinal users alike, Green is easy to pick up and impossible to put down.

Higher Etiquette: A Guide to the World of Cannabis, from Dispensaries to Dinner Parties

By Lizzie Post

Available on Amazon, Target, and on multiple audiobook and ebook platforms.

As we enter the dawn of a new “post-prohibition” era, the stigma surrounding cannabis use is fading, and the conversation about what it means to get high is changing. When it comes to being a respectful, thoughtful, and responsible consumer of pot, there is a lot you need to know. In Higher Etiquette, Lizzie Post–great-great granddaughter of Emily Post and co-president of America’s most respected etiquette brand–explores and celebrates the wide world of legalized weed. Combining cannabis culture’s long-established norms with the Emily Post Institute’s tried-and-true principles, this book covers the social issues surrounding pot today, such as:

• How to bring it to a dinner party or give it as a gift

• Why eating it is different from inhaling it

• How to respectfully use it as a guest

• Why different strains affect you in different ways

• How to be behave at a dispensary

• How to tackle pot faux pas such as “canoed” joints and “lawn-mowed” bowls

This handy guide also provides a primer on the diverse array of cannabis products and methods of use, illuminating the many convenient and accessible options available to everyone from experienced users to newbies and the canna-curious. Informative, charming, and stylishly illustrated, this buzzworthy book will make the ultimate lit addition to your stash.

Stoned Beyond Belief

By Action Bronson with Rachel Wharton

Available on Amazon and on multiple audiobook and ebook platforms.

The ultimate love letter to the world’s most magical plant: Weed. Best-selling author, rapper, chef, and television star Action Bronson is a marijuana superhero, and Stoned Beyond Belief is his masterpiece.

This is an exploration of every corner of the pot galaxy, from highly scientific botanical analyses and the study of pot’s medicinal benefits to a guide to the wild world of weed paraphernalia. It’s also a very personal tribute to a substance Bronson refers to as life changing, horizon-expanding, a conduit for happiness, a connector. Weed is to Action Bronson what the madeleine was to Proust: the door to true consciousness.

Organized loosely as 100 entries, including 35 recipes, and packed with illustrations and photos, Stoned Beyond Belief is a trippy and munchie-filled experience as well as an entertainingly valuable resource for weed enthusiasts and scholars. Stoned Beyond Belief will delight Action Bronson fans and pot aficionados all across the universe.