The Little Book of Cannabis
How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life
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How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life
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A pragmatic and informative look at better living through cannabis.
Cannabis. Weed. Bud. Whatever you choose to call it, it’s been a health aid, comfort, and life-enhancer for humankind for more than three thousand years. But while cannabis is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, more than a century of prohibition has resulted in confusion about its status: Is it healthy? Is it medicinal? Will it make you crazy?
In this fun, illuminating book, cannabis journalist Amanda Siebert delves deep into the latest research to separate marijuana fact from fiction, revealing ten evidence-based ways this potent little plant can improve your life. She speaks with some of the world’s top researchers, medical professionals, and consultants to answer questions such as: Can cannabis help you get a full night’s sleep? Does it aid in exercise and weight loss? Can it really cure cancer? She also offers practical advice for enjoying its benefits, including easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for consumption and dosage, as well as examples of real people who have used this drug to enhance their lives. Cannabis, it turns out, could be life-changing: it can enrich any diet, slow down aging, and even spice things up in the bedroom.
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As a causal, out-of-curiosity reader, I really just wanted to hear what the title says: How marijuana can improve your life. Unfortunately, this message got muddled by all the THC to CBD proportions that are constantly mentioned throughout this book.
The author clearly did a lot of research, which she quotes regularly (props for that), and knows what she is talking about. But perhaps the majority of this technical data should've been used to make another, more instructional book. I'm sure there are cannabis users out there who appreciate all the proportions, relations and mixes that author talks about, but for a non-smoker, it's overwhelming and unnecessary.
I found the later chaptes, specifically 8: ‘A powerful support for cancer treatment' and 9: ‘Easing the aging process' to be the most interesting. This is partially due to the fact that the author didn't mention THC-CBD as much and partially because these two chapters tell an actual human story and not just quote research. The author also makes it very clear that cannabis should be used as an aid and not as a “cure”.
My final thought on this and other nonfiction books is that for a book to read like a book and not like a thesis or a white paper it needs to tell a story. The only details I remember from The Little Book of Cannabis come from parts that told mini stories about baking, death, struggle with illness, etc. These stories help the reader connect the facts and data to real life and make them memorable. I wish the author focused more on these and less on technical data of compound proportions.
