The Rig Veda, the earliest sacred text of the ancient Indo-Europeans, includes dozens of hymns in praise of this long lost psychedelic plant. This book tells the story of the search for soma and uses a diverse range of approaches - travel and ethnography, science and narrative history, detective story and first person drug experiences - to examine the question of its nature and identity.

Cannabis Café invites you to come in, sit down, put your feet up and enjoy some of the best of Eric's Kitchen. Delicious recipes all tried and tested as you relax into the café's atmosphere, the pages take you from the past to the future, from the basic beginnings to the extravagance of today. Still sitting comfortably as you melt into the chocolate section, not to worry if you slip or fall as you will be able to follow the Green therapeutic guide that runs throughout to ease those aches and pains. Whether inspired by Howard Marks doing the cooking or the original weed and wine section or maybe its Eric's sex and grow guide that will turn you on. Whatever your taste, this book is temptingly naughty, but so good that we can guarantee you will be back for more. Lovingly created and produced in the United Kingdom - just for you.

Welcome to the red-eyed world of rock & roll, where every riff comes with a spliff. This is a coked-up compendium of your favourite musicians & their favourite drugs.

This is the never-before-told story of a true American original. Fitz Hugh Ludlow became the best-selling author of The Hasheesh Eater in the years before the Civil War. The book related his visionary experiences with large, oral doses of hashish, along with his religious, philosophical and medical reflections on the altered states they produced.

Underworld of the East is the remarkable story of James Lee who, starting in 1895, spent 20 years pursuing all the pleasures and dangers that the Far East had to offer. He travelled with an open mind more in common with our modern times and recorded with stunning candour and great insight a world where few of his contemporaries dared to venture and speaks vividly across time to the Twenty-First Century reader.