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ORGIES OF THE HEMP EATERS
Cuisine, Slang, Literature and Ritual of Cannabis Culture

Author: Edited by Hakim Bey and Abel Zug

770 pages
Paper Perfectbound
Publisher: Autonomedia
ISBN: 1570271437
New

With Hakim Bey’s “Bhang Nama,” on hemp as sacrament from China to Manhattan;

And Abel Zug’s Cannabis literature timeline starting in 1500, with an introduction to four passages from the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report of 1894;

Including interviews, rants, aphorisms, photos, recipes, cookbooks, rituals, trip tales, stories, commentaries, poems, art, literature, lyrics, reviews, and four Cannabis glossaries;

Literary: Commentaries by Louisa May Alcott, Michael Aldrich, Ganesh Baba, Charles P. Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Madame Blavatsky, Paul Bowles, E. G. Browne (on the “Assassins”), Sir Richard Burton, Ira Cohen, Aleister Crowley, Henri de Monfreid, William Drake, Alexandre Dumas, Lord Dunsany, Isabel Eberhardt, Hector France, Theophile Gautier, Allen Ginsberg, Brian Inglis, A. T. Karamustafa, Timothy Leary, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Henri Michaux, J. J. Moreau, Patricia J. Morningstar, Mohammed Mrabet, Gerard de Nerval, Friedrich Nietzsche, Victor Robinson, Bayard Taylor, and many more;

Scientific: Reports and comments by Walter Dixon, Harry C. Hermon, Lewis Lewin, Alfred Lindesmith, Tod Mikuriya, Solomon H. Snyder, Norman Taylor, and others;

Bibliography: More than 1700 citations, with a current look at Cannabis on the Internet;

Plus: Supplementary bibliographies, multiple appendices and an extensive index.