Cannabis 
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Limited
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780385603041
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.