| Marijuana Grower's Guide Mel Frank Paperback, 300 pages £12.83 | Reviewer: A reader from nowhere I won't even try to list the stuff that's contained in this book, there's LOADS. I was most impressed with the information on nutrients and nutrient deficiencies, it's the most detailed yet easy to understand info I've ever read about nutrients. And the information about THC is unbelievable! It gives lots and lots of tables and charts about what parts of the plant contain the most THC, how temperature, water and humidity affect THC etc. The info on drying and curing is pretty good too. The only negetive things I have to say are that the info was a bit scattered, it could do with being organised a little better. It could do with updating a little- it mentions incandescant lights and tin-foil!! It's also a bit thin in certain topics, I could find hardly any info on how to take clones. And it appeals more to the outdoor grower(it talks about buying/mixing soil ammendments by the ton!!) It contains some fantastic (colour) photos though. The only thing I use the book for now is to get info on nutrients. |
| Cannabis Culture Patrick Matthews Paperback, 254 pages £6.89 | Book Description To some it's the Holy Herb, the Healer of the Nations, the potential saviour of the planet, banned because of a conspiracy involving J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, the petrochemical industry and the yellow press. Others still see it as the Deceptive Weed that undermined Arab civilisation. For millions of others in the West it's no longer even controversial: legalised for many patients under American state laws, tolerated in Holland, openly planted in hundreds of acres of Swiss Alps. But what do we really know about cannabis ? Why does it make you stoned ? Does it kill off brain cells ? Why do different kinds of weed have different effects ? Is it addictive ? Is the talk about medical applications genuine, or just a scam to get it legalized ? Patrick Matthews returns to the Rizla-strewn world he knew before becoming an award-winning wine writer and finds that researchers have unravelled the complexities of this plant, uncovering in the process much of the chemistry of our minds and emotions. And as well as scientists he meets a rich mixture of characters -- the connoisseurs, criminals and cultivators, both here and in the Third World, who together make up our new Cannabis Culture. |
| Stir Crazy : Cooking With Cannabis Paperback, 64 pages £6.40 | Reviewer: A reader from Woodburn, Oregon This is the first cannabis cooking book I've bought and I couldnt have picked a better one...Covers all aspects of cooking and preparing marijuana, i.e. different cooking techniques, dosages, various ingredients, etc...And all this with a quirky purple chipmunk (I think?) as your intrepid quide. He parties with you along the way, ingesting his hempy treats for your delight. The book has snazzy, eye-catching graphics and is a delight to read...Not many recipes, more a book on general cannabis cooking techniques that you can use in a variety of cooking situations. Every cannabis consumer would benefit from the information presented, it opens up whole new way to enjoy your sacred herb!!! |
| Marijuana Grower's Insider's Guide Mel Frank Paperback-369 pages | Reviewer: A reader This book is the preferred title for anyone, novice or expert, growing indoors. Well written, detailed, and from an unimpeachable source. This book contains all the info. you might need to successfully bring C. Sativa to healthy maturity. Highly recommended |
| EASY MARIJUANA GARDENING ED ROSEENTHAL Paperback £8.79 | Reviewer: A reader from nowhere What I was most impressed with in this book was the colour photos. There are clear colour photos on every page, not one single black and white photo and there are only a couple of drawings. The photos show things like:- what male and female flowers look like from when they first appear to the middle stages and when they are mature, what a plant/bud grows like if it is pruned in a certain way, step by step photos which show how to take clones, harvest/manicure plants and pruning; and there are a couple of photos of what nutrient deficiencies look like. The type of grow-rooms discussed in the book are NOT these super-cash-cropper grow-rooms which cost about £/$5000 to set up, they are the very small growrooms which can be set up in a closet type structure. The way the book is set out is fantastic, it's set out like a school textbook. The text is very easy to follow and understand, no technical jargon whatsoever. The book only has 73 pages but don't be put off by it. It's just the way the book is set out that makes it a small book. The photos are a big help and break up the text a bit too, making the book very interesting. It contains photos that the beginner wants to see like close ups of developing flowers and seedlings/clones, not photos of huge buds (although there are a couple). The book discusses both soil and hydroponic methods of growing. At the beginning of the book it gives you examples of growrooms (photos of other peoples growrooms) and how to set them up in the most efficient way. The book doesn't contain all that science stuff you get in the bigger grow guides, it's more of an instruction book, a very practical book. If you read any negative/bad reviews about this book then ignore them, it's just people who like to bad-mouth other people. This book is great and is worth buying. The only negative-ish thing I have to say about this book is that it doesn't contain absolutely everything; it would be better if it were coupled with a bigger grow guide like "marijuana growers guide" by Mel Frank or "Indoor marijuana horticulture" by jorge cervantes |
| Closet Cultivator Ed Rosenthal Paperback, 115 pages £10.90 | Reviewer: A reader from California If you get this book make sure you get the new revised edition put out by Quick American Archives. The cover is a photograph of a closet, not a painting.As always Ed Rosenthal does a great job of walking you through all stages of cultivation. This new edition has a color photo section too. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
| High Times Cultivation Tips : Twenty Years and Still Growing Steve Hager Paperback 126 pages £12.83 | Reviewer: redroo@start.com.au from Adelaide State Of South Australia Without the net i would never have been able to obtain this book, and others like it...more about that soon... I carried this book around with me in my backpack for about 12 months when i recieved it, i could not put it down, inside i found little bits of info from different brands of seeds to outdoor growing, to how to grow inside with lights and not get bustered by the heat police... One hell of a book, being in Australia it is hard to buy 'Hightimes' where these articles came from, so for me it was pleasing to see that Steve had put together a book on what had happened over the last 20 years (for those of us here in Australia who can not get the magazine...due to our bloody governemnts regulations, but thats another story)and catch up on what had gone before, and what is current, hey do yourself a favour, if you want to find out a lot about growing there are things in this book that you will not find anywhere else... Thanx Steve what a great read... PS:The only trouble i have now is, i may need to buy another copy of 'Cultivators Tips' as my copy is almost warne out (due to me carrying it everywhere i go) but hey...what an education mate........................................... From The Land Of The Kangaroo... |
| Cannabis Alchemy : The Art of Modern Hashmaking : Methods for Preparation of Extremely Potent Cannabis Products D. Gold Paperback £8.33 | Reviewer: A reader from the Land of the Free(?) This book tells you how to concentrate active ingredients from Cannabis, and how to modify them to improve their potency. The instructions given are distilled from technical writings, which are cited. These technical journals may be hard to come by, since the articles are often old (but valid). D. Gold tells you exactly how to prepare Cannabis extracts and preparations using readily available kitchen pots and pans and a few chemistry set novelties. He also describes a larger set-up utilizing a 55 gallon drum. I myself have never gotten around to trying the techniques described in the book because I smoke a small quantity of good Cannabis that I pay a high price for. Smoking unrefined Cannabis is good enough for me. I would have to make modest investments to implement Gold's methods. I can spend that on Cannabis instead. I think Gold's methods would be great for someone who has access to large quantities of Cannabis at a low price. I have never understood why people smuggle low quality Cannabis across international borders. Bootleggers distilled their fermented corn mash into a potent form before loading it into the trunks of their cars. I think the penalties for bunk weed aren't much different than those for hash oil, so it seems irrational to smuggle garbage. I think this book would be good for Cannabis cultivators who have a lot of low potency leaves to dispose of. Perhaps they could convert these into high quality products. They should experiment at small scale to see if it justifies the costs. Heating fuel is expended, some solvents may not be fully recycled. Yield efficiency may be below 100%. I think this information would also be useful for people seeking information on medical marijuana. Perhaps a person with a serious need for purified Cannabis extracts would be willing to go to the trouble of preparing extracts. Of course, nothing in the book or in this review should be construed as encouraging you to do anything illegal. Perhaps you should consider moving to Antarctica or the Netherlands if you find D. Gold's methods interesting. |
| The Joint Rolling Handbook Bobcat Press Paperback, 64 pages £6.40 | Reviewer: grandmastertoker@hotmail.com from London Go mad ! mad mad mad ! this book is amazin the best book on skinin up i've seen and i have seen a few. i myself could skin up well good before i bought this book but i even i a rolling master picked up some tips and some new joints from this fabulous guide. some of the joints r mental and must have been come up with while totaly stonned. even jesus couldn't think up a few of these joints let alone skin them up and he was a major toker. t rust me buy this book if u r even remotely interested in smokin weed or hash it is brilliant the best book around (makes good roaches too! ) p.s this is not blasphemous. |
| Why Marijuana Should Be Legal Ed Rosenthal, Steve Kubby Paperback 114 pages £6.40 | Key points from the review in SCIENCE, 16 Jun 2000 "(Iversen) has written a remarkably well-balanced volume that provides the scientific background for the current debate on marijuana use... It is a treasure trove of information about the history of marijuana use and legislation, and it effectivley summarizes in lay terms the cannabinoid research that now offers a potential scientific foundation for medical, political, and legal decisions about marijuana. The most important, and most extensive, part of the book deals with the potential therapeutic uses of marijuana, the cornerstone of the current public debate..." |