For Immediate Release
POT CULTURE THE A-Z GUIDE TO STONER LANGUAGE & LIFE
FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH MELISSA ETHERIDGE AND MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY
PLUS CONTRIBUTIONS BY FALL OUT BOY¹S JOE TROHMAN, MAROON 5'S ADAM
LEVINE, REDMAN, AND MORE
BY SHIRLEY HALPERIN & STEVE BLOOM / FOREWORD BY TOMMY CHONG
JUST IN TIME FOR 4/20!!
POT CULTURE: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life (Abrams Image;
April 20, 2008, $19.95), the first comprehensive guide for the devoted
smoker and occasional toker, is everything you ever wanted to know
about marijuana but were too stoned to ask.
A multi-generational encyclopedia that lists more than 500 people,
places, words and slang phrases (from "Acapulco Gold" to "zooted"),
POT
CULTURE is also a how-to guide, an atlas, a book of manners, a cultural
manifesto, a cookbook, and a cross-referenced history lesson on the
world of weed.
Dazed & Confused, the Harold & Kumar franchise, Dr. Dre's The Chronic
... from movies to music to TV, marijuana has permeated American
culture like never before. POT CULTURE, with its hundreds of photos and
illustrations, maps and charts, sidebars and first-person accounts,
dazzles and informs, educates and entertains about a subject that's
gone from taboo to practically mainstream.
POT CULTURE also brings you closer to the high-life of celebrity
stoners, with facts, quotes, and photos of the famous (Jack Black,
Matthew McConaughey, Dave Chappelle) and the legendary (Bob Marley,
Willie Nelson), as well as contributions by Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman,
Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas, Maroon 5's Adam Levine, Superbad star
Jonah Hill, America's Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry, and many
more.
Today's medical-marijuana movement comes to life in profiles of its
major players, a display of "Medical Edibles," and an in-depth
interview with singer Melissa Etheridge, who, for the first time,
discusses her personal experience using marijuana to combat breast
cancer. POT CULTURE also chronicles marijuana prohibition from the
1930s to present times, identifying activists and iconic figures in the
cannabis legalization and counterculture communities with biographical
sketches throughout the book.
Guaranteed to keep you flipping from page to page for hours, it's the
perfect gift for the college student, the baby boomer, and anyone with
an eye to contemporary society. But most important, POT CULTURE is a
must-have for any self-respecting stoner.
HIGHlights ...
* Stoner Etiquette 101
* Drug References in Beatles Songs
* A Brief History of Stoner Movies
* Stoniest Simpsons Episodes
* Jack Nicholson's Stoniest Movies
* Guide to Rolling Papers
* Great Stoner Innovations
* Famous Pot Busts
* The Seven Stoner Wonders of the World
* Stoner Colleges
* Smart Munchies
* Classic Stoner TV
* Keeping Your Buds Fresh
* How to Make Cannabutter
* Pot (or Not?) Songs
* The Origin of 420
... and celebrity contributions
* How to Roll a Blunt by Redman
* How to Make an Apple Pipe by Jonah Hill
* Playing a Movie Stoner by Kal Penn
* How to Make a Can Bong by Steve-O
* The Art of Scoring by Rob Thomas
* Greatest Smoking Songs by Bo Bice
* Psych Rock to Smoke To by Bob Pollard
* How to Hide the Smell by Adrianne Curry
* Pot on Tour by Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman
About the Authors:
Shirley Halperin is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, based in
Los Angeles, and a frequent TV commentator who has appeared on MTV,
VH1, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and E! She formerly served as entertainment
editor at Us Weekly and was a contributor at Rolling Stone. Shirley got
her start in journalism as an intern at High Times.
Steve Bloom is a New York-based author who was formerly an editor of
High Times. He is also the founder of the website celebstoner.com.
Tommy Chong is the ultimate celebrity stoner, known best for his roles
in the many pot-themed Cheech & Chong movies that he starred in with
cohort Cheech Marin.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)