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HOW TO SMOKE POT (PROPERLY)

DAVID BIENENSTOCK is the former West Coast editor of High Times magazine and has more recently grown a following as a journalist and video host/producer at VICE, where he writes the Weed Eater column and produces a video series called Bong Appetit. Hes appeared as a cannabis expert on NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, and HBO and has been quoted in Salon,GQ, FastCompany, Adweek, Playboy, and The Nation. For more information, visit www.davidbienenstock.com, or follow him on Twitter at @pot_handbook.

Praise for
How to Smoke Pot Properly

Its refreshing, in the midst of our binge culture, to find a voice that clearly articulates the benefits and pitfalls of cannabis enthusiasm while strongly encouraging responsible consumption and cultivation. There is no better spokesperson for the cannabis-positive lifestyle in the post-prohibition era than David Bienenstock.

Ben Sinclair, cocreator and star of the HBO original series High Maintenance

David Bienenstocks writing skills and sense of humor are matched only by his intimate knowledge of marijuana customs, history, industry, and etiquette. As cannabis moves from the underground to the mainstream, no book can better help you navigate the intricacies of this wonderful new era.

Danny Danko, High Times senior cultivation editor

David Bienenstock is my official weed mentor and as such has taught me many fascinating things about an innocent little plant thats shifted the tectonic plates of history time and time again. In How to Smoke Pot (Properly), he compiles these insights and many others to provide the most comprehensive guide to cannabis to date.

Abdullah Saeed, author of VICEs Weediquette column and host of Bong Appetit

This is much more than the how-to book that the title implies. While the presentation is somewhat kaleidoscopic, How to Smoke Pot (Properly) provides, especially to novices, an excellent overview of cannabis and its extraordinary Western acculturation over the last four decades.

Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and author of Marihuana Reconsidered and Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine

I read the shit out of this super funny and informative book, which includes a surprising answer to Should I eat pot brownies before boarding an airplane? David Bienenstock is like a really smart version of Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, who can form sentences that teach you stuff about weedand also make you laugh hard as fuck.

Mike Clattenburg, cocreator of Trailer Park Boys and Black Jesus

Humans have been using cannabis and hemp for tens of thousands of years, but only recently have smart people begun again to think and write clearly about what pot really does and what its really good for. David Bienenstock leads the pack in this newly liberated thinking. Free your mind and your grass will follow.

Julie Holland, MD, author of Moody Bitches, Weekends at Bellevue, and The Pot Book

In our rapidly evolving new age of marijuana appreciation and education, How to Smoke Pot (Properly) provides a thoughtful, historical, and comprehensive account of all things cannabis. Filled with useful information that encompasses just about every situation imaginable, from rolling your first joint to properly passing one in a foreign land with new friends, David Bienenstock expresses his passion and commitment in a way only someone dedicated to keeping it weird possibly can.

Alex Lifeson, guitarist of Rush

How to Smoke Pot (Properly) is a delightful book proclaiming that marijuana smoking can be an exhilarating, creative experience. David Bienenstock sets the tone in his introduction when he says, Its no longer sufficient to talk about the harms of marijuana prohibition. Weve got to start loudly and proudly celebrating the many serious benefits this plant brings into our lives and communities.

Keith Stroup, NORML founder and legal counsel

Its a healthy development that society has reached the point where it needed this book, and Im glad someone of David Bienenstocks eloquence and experience has written it.

Doug Fine, author of Farewell, My Subaru; Too High to Fail ; and Hemp Bound

Covering history, etiquette, medicine, consumption, and safety, this is a complete examination of cannabis today, penned by a master of prose.... I love this book!

Jorge Cervantes, bestselling author of Marijuana Horticulture

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eBook ISBN: 9780698401525

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Bienenstock, David, author.

How to smoke pot (properly) : a highbrow guide to getting high / David Bienenstock.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 9780147517081

1. Marijuana. 2. Marijuana abuse. 3. Drug paraphernalia. I. Title.

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Illustrations by Samantha Russo

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To Elise, my partner in every step of this journey.
And to Dr. Lester Grinspoon, for helping the world reconsider marijuana.

CONTENTS

AUTHORS NOTE

W hile this is a wholly new work, the author acknowledges that in certain places it briefly recounts adventures and interviews undertaken while working as an on-staff editor at High Times or as a freelance reporter and video host/producer with VICE media. In each instance, this fact is made directly transparent to the reader in the main text.

There are also a small number of instances where a short passage of the authors own writing has been retained whole or mostly whole from one of these earlier works. This has been done with all necessary permission from the original publisher and represents a small percentage of the overall text.