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.

The inventive and original recipes combined with the therapeutic uses of cannabis show you how to make delicious food and beneficial preparations. Information on healing, poultices, tinctures and ointments are also included.

Culinary and recreational uses of one sacred herb. This established, best selling classic has easy to follow recipes with clear measurements. Personally recommended by Howard Marks, there are crisps, cookies, a full dinner party or there is traditionally solstice cake - once tried never forgotten!

Excellent new edition of the classic Indoor Bible - puts all the latest information on indoor cultivation at your fingertips. A best seller since first published in 1983. Full of colour illustrations.

The best outdoor growing guide for years with a stunning photographic record and a Diary of A Season, with thoughts on the use of cannabis for relaxation, medicine and spirituality. Full colour throughout.

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.

This collection of writings on contemporary psychedelic culture covers a huge range of material, including biographical material on Castenada, Ganesh Baba and Fitz Hugh Ludlow, the Biblical history of certain plants, the intersecting of science and institutions in the drug world, rave culture, drug tourism, and more. Also includes preface material by Hakim Bey and Timothy Leary, the editor's extensive networking contacts and many book and journal reviews.

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.