Thursday, March 3, 2011

"Ganja Safari" Ethnography

Pot Planet is an ethnographic adventure about worldwide Marijuana culture.  Each chapter discusses different countries and then elaborates on cities and then even neighborhoods.  The author, Brian Preston, covers the Northern Californian medicinal purpose of "mary-jane" and also, the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam.  Preston talks about the promises and problems of smoking weed.  He takes a deeper look into the culture of old ancient Chinese use for hemp and historical uses of marijuana.  Being a pot-smoker himself, Brian Preston is an insider to this culture and is usually referred to as the west-coast stoner dude.  He takes his bias-ness and utilises it to come up with informative, and factual evidence to support legal marijuana.