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Please browse through and enjoy our specialist collection of Eric's favourite books.

General Interest
Cannabis Cultivation
Cannabis Facts and Study
Mushrooms
Cannabis Use
Hemp

GENERAL INTEREST

MR NICE
Howard Marks
£6.99

During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and owned twenty-five companies trading throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana. He was Britains most wanted man. He has just spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.

   
BRAIN STORM
Bryan Talbot
£9.95

Bryan Talbot is one of Britain's foremost strip creators. This book presents his earliest British underground work from the legendary Brainstorm comic series, available for the first time in one volume. Includes classics like the trilogy of Chester P Hackenbush - the psychedelic alchemist, the Smokey Bears strip and more.


CANNABIS CULTIVATION


EUROPEAN CANNABIS CULTIVATION
Mel
£12.95

The UK's first expert grow guide for indoor, organic and outdoor cultivation and the first to discuss big ideas. The security police tried to ban it but here it is. You will enjoy it!

"All you need to know about the medicinal, recreational and commercial uses of cannabis including detailed descriptions of cultivation techniques used to increase both yield and potency. Included is your password giving you free and unlimited access to the members website for updates.

The author was a notorious cannabis cultivator who was eventually jailed for producing what U.K. police estimated was £2.5 million of skunk. The judge called him 'A horticultural expert involved in a resolute and successful attempt to grow cannabis on a commercial scale'. This book is an underground classic written by someone who learned the hard way!"

   
CLOSET CULTIVATOR
Ed Rosenthal
£13.99

One of the most popular books on indoor gardening, emphasising space efficiency it describes methods used by the most successful closet farmers. Filled with photos and illustrations.

   
GREEN HARVEST
George Mayfield
£4.95

This underground classic shows the reader how to successfully cultivate Sensimilla at the first attempt. Photographs and clear illustrations with detailed information in laymans terms. Novice to expert in no time at all.

   
GOLD HARVEST
George Mayfield
£9.99

The follow up to the classic Green Harvest, this book deals with more detailed techniques, incorporating Hydroponics as well as the traditional soil growing methods. All explained with the aid of colour photographs and diagrams in the straight forward language that has made Green Harvest so accessible.

   
MARIJUANA BOTANY
Robert Connell Clark
£18.95

The propagation and breeding of distinctive cannabis, this book contains the information that many underground growers use to breed quality marijuana, it is the only book of its kind available.

   
THE KISS OF THE SUN
John Alexander
£8.99

This is a beautifully presented book with full colour photos throughout, it contains all you need to know to growing outside. It is a step-by-step guide covering germination through to harvesting and drying. It even has a chapter on developing your own seed strains. Loaded with tips it includes a 'Diary of a Season' giving an insight into the various problems and joys of a homegrower.

"Growing Cannabis the natural Way - Just Soil and Sunlight"

   
MARIJUANA GROWERS GUIDE
Mel Frank & Ed Rosenthal
£16.95

The bible of grow books, detailed information on both indoor and outdoor cultivation. Over 1 million copies sold!

   
MARIJUANA GROWERS HANDBOOK
Ed Rosenthal
£16.95

Greenhouse and indoor high tech cultivation. Information on hydroponics, CO2 enrichmnent with many photos & charts making the text easy to follow.

   
MARIJUANA GROWERS INSIDERS GUIDE
Mel Frank
£16.95

Comprehensive information concentrating on indoor cultivation, from the co-author of the Marijuana Growers Guide. Easy to understand with over 200 pictures and drawings.

   
MARIJUANA HYDROPONICS
Daniel Storm
£12.95

An introduction to the technology fo growing marijuana without soil, all the information needed to set up a system using nutrient solutions in controlled environments.

   
MARIJUANA INDOORS
FIVE EASY GARDENS
Jorge Cervantes
£12.95

THe latest offering from the world renowned author of Indoor Marijuana Horticulture. This book describes how to choose a safe house, build a grow room and cloning chamber, install ventillation, hydroponics gardens and grow lights and much more - all from the point of view of five experienced growers.

   
THE SINSIMILLA TECHNIQUE
Kayo
£18.95

This classic book on outdoor cultivation provides an insight into a cultivation technique, how it evolved & how it differs from other horticultural techniques. From seed genetics to soil, nutrients and water systems through to harvesting, packaging and marketing. Section on how sinsimilla cultivators camouflage and protect their plants and themselves.


CANNABIS FACTS & STUDY

LEGAL HIGHS
Adam Gottlieb
£6.99

Legal Highs is a concise encyclopedia of legal herbs and chemicals that possess
psychoactive properties. Many of potent substances are relatively unknown to both
the general public and the legislatures. LEGAL HIGHS includes how they are obtained,
how to use them and what their effects are.

Finally, this hard to obtain cult classic is once again available. Revised and updated.

   
CANNABIS ALCHEMY
D Gold
£8.95

The art of hash making and how to extract and refine THC using elementary chemical techniques. Also uncovers the secrets of enhancing potency.

   
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MARIJUANA CHEMISTRY
Michael Starks
£22.00

A comprehensive book covering marijuana constituents and their effects, variations in THC and CBD content, growth conditions and potency, harvesting and preparation of marijuana and hashish, extraction of THC, isomerization, seed variations, grafting, cloning bonsai marijuana plants and other special growing techniques.

   
MARIJUANA MYTHS,
MARIJUANA FACTS
Lynn Zimmer and
John P Morgan
£11.00

Lynn Zimmer, PHD., and John Morgan, M.D., have written a book that tells the truth marijuana. Scientifically sound and carefully documented, it seperates the facts from the myths with a critical examination of more than a century's worth of research on marijuana's effects on human health and behaviour. This book is essential reading for parents, teachers, policy makers and anyone who believes that our response to marijuana should be based on facts, not fear.

   
MARIJUANA RECONSIDERED
Lester Grinspoon
£16.96

When Havard University psychiatrist Dr Lester Grinspoon began researching marijuana in 1967 he was in no doubt it was a very harmful drug. With an aim to define scientifically the nature and dangers of the drug he reviewed all the scientific, medical and lay literature available. By the time he'd finished his research two years later he was convinced that not only was cannabis far less harmful than he had originally believed but that no harm it might cause was nearly as serious as the damage attributable to the annual arrest of hundreds of thousands of mostly young people. A major contribution to the debate on legalising cannabis.

   
THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES
Jack Herer
£12.00

A classic! This is the book that started the movement for the legalisation of hemp. Read how hemp might save the world including ways to use hemp for medicine, food, fuel, fibre, paper and to replace plastic; the facts about marijuana and it's effect on people; how and why cannabis prohibition began, what it has meant, who profits from keeping it in place and how youcan bring it to an end.

   
THE GREAT BOOK OF HEMP
Rowan Robinson
£19.95

THe complete guide to the commercial, medicinal and psychotropic uses of the worlds most versatile plant, cannabis sativa. This book covers the history of cultivation, its role as a source of renewable energy, as a fibre and its medical uses. A comprehensive resource section includes information on organisations involved in legalising hemp and product suppliers.

   
THE GREAT BOOK OF HASHISH
Laurence Cherniak
£19.95

A stunning collection of photographs and tales from Morocco, Lebanon, Afghanistan and the Himalayas by world renowned photographer, Laurence Cherniak. The ultimate photojournalistic and ethnobotanical celebration of cannabis in print.

   
HASHISH
Robert Connell Clarke
£25.00

This serious study illuminates and demystifies the world of hashish. Rob Clarke traces the history of hashish and surveys both ancient and contemporary hashish-using cultures. In clear, understandable terms, he discusses the ingredients that make up hashish and the biochemistry of the psychoactive constituents. As well as depicting the how-to of traditional manufacturing methods, 'Hashish' describes and illustrates innovative high-tech production techniques that improve on traditional practices. The author concludes by showing how kitchenware found in any home can be used in novel ways to make hashish for personal consumption. An invaluable guide for recreational and medicinal hashish users, buyers, hashish-makers and researchers.


MUSHROOMS

GROWING THE HALLUCINOGENS
Hudson Grubber
£7.95

Cultivation and harvesting of the hallucinogenic and psychoactive plants described in Legal Highs. Shows how to obtain seeds and live cuttings.

   
A GUIDE TO BRITISH PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS
Richard Cooper
£4.99

This booklet is for those who wish to identify those species of hallucinogenic which grow in the British Isles. Of the innumerable species of fungi native to Britain and Ireland, about a dozen are psycho-active when taken in the correct dosage. Psilocybe semilanceata, the Liberty Cap, and Amanita muscaria, the Fly Agaric, are by far the most common. The purpose of this book is to help you find and identify these particular mushrooms, to give you some idea of what dosage to take, and to explain how to dry the mushrooms you find, for later use.


CANNABIS USE

COOKING WITH CANNABIS
Nan Gottlieb
£7.95

The old classic on the culinary cannabis connection.

   
THE JOINT ROLLING HANDBOOK (Expert Edition)
Richard Kemplay
£5.95

The completely revised, very well illustrated, step by step guide to hand rolling various forms of spliff interlaced with lots of information on cannabis. An excellent gift.


HEMP

H.E.M.P - Healthy Eating Made Possible
Paul Benhaim
£9.99

Hemp is the radical social, environmental and political nutritional ingredient of the 21st Century.

As the backlash against genetically modified food intensifies, public demand for organic and naturally derived goods continues to grow - and hemp provides the answer. In H.E.M.P - Healthy Eating Made Possible, Paul Benhaim takes a comprehensive look at this rediscovered plant and it's potential for a sustainable future.

There are delicious, healthy and easy to follow recipes including Hemp Tempura, Wild Rice Mesquito, Vietnamese Salad Rolls, Banana and Yam Patiya and Hemp Fruit Crumble.

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