Cannabis
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Picador
Published: May 12, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780312424947
Subjects: Plants - General; Popular Culture - Counter Culture; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; History / General; General; History; Nature; Cannabis; Law and legislation; Marijuana; History: World
First sentence: ONCE UPON A TIME, ACCORDING TO A STORY RECOUNTED BY the Islamic chronicler al-Maqrizi (1364-1442) in AD 1155, the founder of the Persian Sufi Hyderi sect, Haydar, left his cell in a monastery in the mountains near Neyshaur, in the Khorasan region of north-eastern Iran, and went out for a walk.