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Heart Of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, And The Race For The Cannabis Cup (2012)

by Mark Haskell Smith(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307720543 (ISBN13: 9780307720542)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Broadway Books

review 1: In the movie Pineapple Express, Pot dealer James Franco is explaining the family tree of his great new weed to a customer. His description is a page straight out of this book. It's an education in the care and breeding of marijuana and of the annual international competition held in Amsterdam that judges the world's best pot. This world is seen through the eyes of those the author considers the best growers in the U.S. and Europe. After a few chapters you start regarding high grade weed as something akin to rare vintages of wine. It's a good look into the science and marketing of pot. Yes, they all sample their wares but many of them take it very seriously and there is an interesting case made by one subject for permitting more scientific exploration of the potential med... moreicinal applications of cannabis.
review 2: A rollicking romp through the world of cannabis cultivation and agricultural celebrity. Using the annual Cannabis Cup awards, the Oscars of hempdom, which can turn a pot seed geneticist into a millionaire overnight, author Mark Haskell Smith follows the sweet smell of success from the hidden pot farms of Mendocino to the boutique seed cultivators of Amsterdam in search of the elusive definition of dankness. This is the first nonfiction offering I've seen from MHS, but the dark humor of his novels comes through loud and clear in the crisp, hilarious style.His comic-crime novel "Baked," grew out of the research he did for "Heart of Dankness." It's amazing that he was able to salvage so much delightful detail from his research, considering what the requisite cannabis consumption must have done to his consciousness. less

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