The best way to contextualize the issues of the day is to learn your history. Crack a damn book sometime.
Cannabis Now
- Mark S. Ferra’s Sacred Bliss: A Spiritual History of Cannabis could be a tonic for these California times in that it offers a global take on the way people have used our favorite drug. As a famously competent President once said, “You didn’t build that.” Perspective is a good traveling buddy.
- Or, maybe this graphic novel by author Box Brown is what you need right now. Brown’s narrative explains the origins of prohibition, vividly breaking open for contemplation the War on Drugs
