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by Dr. Dominic Corva, Executive Director
My second installment in this series takes a very different approach: a broadly “first-cut” categorized bibliography with just books (no articles). This minor literature will soon be a page on our site, with specialized sub-pages. For now, enjoy this list without wordy explanations!
A Minor Cannabis Literature/CASP-endorsed Curriculum
The following bibliography will evolve as a page and set of sub-pages with appropriate hyper-links. All of the texts below are “CASP-endorsed,” which really only means that Dr. Corva is familiar with and has found them useful in various educational settings.
We’ll start the page with books, and move categories into sub-pages as time resources permit. We are also starting with cannabis-focused books and move into broader categories in which cannabis figures prominently as a subject.
Books
Big Picture, includes elements of all other categories (includes scientists and journalists broadly united as “Historical Geographers”
Cannabis Evolution and Ethnobotany, by Mark Merlin and Robert Clarke (2013).
Cannabis: a History, by Martin Booth (2005).
Smoke Signals: a Social History of Marijuana Medical, Recreational and Scientific, by Martin Lee (2013).
Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana by Larry “Ratso” Sloman and William Burroughs (1998).
Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States, by Richard Bonnie, Charles Whitebread, and Dana Farnsworth (1999).
chronic freedom, assembled by Scott Holmquist (2010).
Cash Crop: An American Dream, by Ray Raphael (1985).
Marijuana in the “Third World”: Appalachia, U.S.A (Studies on the Impact of the Illegal Drug Trade) by Richard Clayton (1995).
Evidence and Explanation (books by research scientists with Ph.D.s and M.D.s)
Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential, by Dr.
The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis, collection edited by Julie Holland (2010).
Marijuana Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Jonathan Caulkins, Angela Hawken, Beau Kilmer, and Mark Kleiman (2012).
Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence, by Mitch Earlywine, M.D. (2005).
Marihuana: the Forbidden Medicine by Lester Grinspoon, M.D. and James Bakkalar, M.D. (1997).
Marihuana Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon, M.D. [with Carl Sagan as “Mr. X”] (1994).
Marijuana Medical Handbook: Practical Guide to Therapeutic Uses of Marijuana Paperback by
Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts: A Review Of The Scientific Evidence by
Memoir and Popular Interest (books by journalists and lay people)
Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution by Doug Fine (2013).
Weed the People: the Future of Legal Marijuana in America by Bruce Barcott (2015).
Big Weed: An Entrepreneur’s High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business Hardcover by
Super-Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana Hardcover by
Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup Paperback by