Whether it’s to deepen your knowledge of the history of cannabis or to learn a little more about CBD, here are 4 books on cannabis for this back to school, read and approved.
CBD, what to do with it?
Written by Léa Ruellan, founder of the CBD brand Equilibre, this practical guide to cannabidiol aims to provide all the keys to the effective use of CBD in all its forms. The book answers questions like: how to choose a CBD oil? What dosage is best? Or how to include it in your everyday life?
Nicely illustrated, in the image of the Equilibre brand, this makes it a book that will embellish both your library and your daily life.
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Thai Stick – Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
Bangkok has been the haunt of smugglers and adventurers since the late 18th century. In the 1970s, the Thai Stick arrived discreetly in the United States, via surfers seeking to finance their endless summers or soldiers returning from Vietnam.
From secret smuggling to one of the most complex circuits in the history of the drug trade, Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter are the first historians to document this clandestine industry, the only trace of which lies in the memories of its participants. .
After conducting hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement officers, the authors recount the purchase, delivery, return trip, and unloading of the product. They look at the eccentric personalities who transformed the Thai cannabis trade from a cottage industry into one of the world’s most lucrative commodities, uncovering a rare story from the smugglers’ perspective. And help to understand how Thai decriminalization has only acted on the know-how that is probably the most advanced in Asia.
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Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
More academic than the previous one, Intoxicating Zion is the first book to tell the story of hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Trafficking, consumption and law, race, gender and class, colonialism and nation building are all intertwined in the social history of cannabis in this very particular part of the world. Haggai Ram traces the history of the hash trade from the 1920s to the aftermath of the 1967 war which involved smugglers, international gangs, residents, law enforcement and political actors.
Where we learn in particular of the existence of Operation Toto, approved by the Prime Minister himself, David Ben-Gurion, by which Israel tried to flood Egypt with drugs to make Egyptians addicted and weaken its army . And that the concept of “mule” existed with camels, which had to pass through an X-ray portal upon entering Egypt to detect any cans filled with hash in their stomachs.
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Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics
This book, written by two economists, dwells factually on the new legal segment of one of the oldest industries in the world. The authors take us on a whirlwind tour of the past, present, and economic future of legal and illegal weed.
Drawing on available data and their own work with California cannabis regulators since 2016, Goldstein and Sumner explain why many cannabis companies and some aspects of legalization fall short, while others succeed. . The book covers the period from the first medical cannabis dispensaries in America in 1996 to the boom in legal consumption that occurred during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
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