The Official High Times Pot Smokers Handbook: Featuring 420 Things to do When You're Stoned [Large Print] [Paperback]

David Bienenstock (Author), Editors of High Times Magazine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 6, 2008

Since 1974, High Times magazine has covered marijuana in all its aspects and wonders, from cultivation to legalization to the herb's enduring (and exalted) place in popular culture. Packed with inside information, The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Handbook rolls up all of this collected wisdom into one indispensable ganja guide. With a life-changing list of 420 things to do when you're stoned, this is truly, finally, the ultimate guide to green living.

Editorial Reviews

Review

CLEVELAND SCENE
Working with the editors of High Times magazine, author David Bienenstock has put together an engaging mix of facts, funnies, how-to and cultural observation that would make for what teachers and counselors call a well-rounded student.

REASON MAGAZINE
this copiously illustrated, easily digestible book is filled with useful and entertaining features...

About the Author

David Bienenstock, the executive editor of High Times magazine, has traveled the world to write about cannabis sativa. He lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; large type edition edition (August 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811862054
• ISBN-13: 978-0811862059
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you want to know about pot, November 7, 2008

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A. Whitney (Silicon Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Official High Times Pot Smokers Handbook: Featuring 420 Things to do When You're Stoned (Paperback)

The Pot Smoker's Handbook is a great combination of funny, informative, instructional and historical information on cannabis culture.

** Funny: 420 things to do when you're stoned; 20 songs for 420; marijuana at the movies; and High Times all-star celebs.

** Informative: destinations for ganja travel; ways to become politically active; pot laws; the chemistry of pot; types and strains; pricing; the economy of pot

** Instructional: tips for rolling, smoking, and cooking pot; growing techniques; how to covertly smoke in a dorm room; how to deal with your dealer.

** Historical: pot in American history; The Cannabis Cup; awards; profiles of well-known pot-smokers

It truly is a handbook in that it covers every aspect of pot culture from the silly to the serious, but in a fun way.

Highly recommended!

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NORML review: Official High Times Complete Smoker's Handbook, October 31, 2008

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Allen F. StPierre (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Official High Times Pot Smokers Handbook: Featuring 420 Things to do When You're Stoned (Paperback)

When cannabis prohibition ends sooner than later in North America, the legendary rebel publishing company Trans High Corporation (THC), publisher of High Times Magazine, will go down in the history books as the chronicle for the cannabis consuming community and, ironically, how popular cannabis became under government prohibition laws.

While an issue of High Times on the newsstand should not be missed, neither should readers' opportunity to read David Bienenstock's well-written and researched 'Official High Times Complete Smoker's Guide'. Bienenstock, an editor at the magazine, has delved deeply into High Times' impressive 33-year old archive and married some of the most iconoclastic images captured in popular culture regarding 'cannabis' with a solid sense of history and insightful observations gathered from within the cannabis law reform movement and emerging 'cannabusinesses' that populate America and Canada.

The 'Official High Times Complete Smoker's Guide' provides the reader a sneak peek into the world of what it is actually like to be, in effect, a professional pot smoker.

-Got a ganja smoker on your holiday present list?-
Are you or a like-minded family of friend into marijuana and 'cannabis culture'? If so, then David Bienenstock's 'Official High Times Complete Smoker's Guide' justly deserves a place in your--or their--personal libraries.

After cannabis prohibition ends in America (and Canada) books like Bienenstock's will make for a great read for future generations to view how the prohibition of an otherwise safe, natural and popular intoxicant and medicine came to be, what the prohibition era looked like and how popular culture, economics and cognitive liberty won the day over government tyranny and nitwittery.

Allen St. Pierre
Executive Director
NORML
Washington, DC

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fresh Pot-pourri, October 28, 2008

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Mason Tvert (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Official High Times Pot Smokers Handbook: Featuring 420 Things to do When You're Stoned (Paperback)

As the head of a national marijuana reform organization, I've read A LOT of books about marijuana. This one ranks up there as one of the most fun and informative. Who better to lay out the various elements of marijuana than David Bienenstock and the folks at High Times? This book has tons -- or should I say kilos? -- of information on marijuana culture, politics, activism, entertainment, and more.

Whether you consider yourself a scholar or novice when it comes to the issues surrounding marijuana, you are sure to enjoy this book.