Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup

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Broadway (2012年4月3日)平装:256页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307720543条形码:9780307720542商品尺寸:13 x 1.3 x 20.3 cm商品重量:191 gASIN:0307720543商品描述内容简介Reporting for theLos Angeles Timeson the international blind tasting competition held annually in Amsterdam known as the Cannabis Cup,novelist Mark Haskell Smith sampled a variety of marijuana that was unlike anything he’d experienced.  It wasn’t anything like typical stoner weed, in fact it didn’t get you stoned.  This cannabis possessed an ephemeral quality known to aficionados as “dankness.”

Armed with a State of California Medical Marijuana recommendation, he begins a journey into the international underground where super-high-grade marijuana is developed and tracks down the rag-tag community of underground botanists, outlaw farmers, and renegade strain hunters who pursue excellence and diversity in marijuana, defying the law to find new flavors, tastes, and effects.  This unrelenting pursuit of dankness climaxes at the Cannabis Cup, which Haskell Smith vividly portrays as the Super Bowl/Mardi Gras of the world's largest cash crop.媒体推荐“Smith’s colorful and informative report will appeal not only to pot connoisseurs but also to anyone curious to learn why marijuana currently outstrips corn as the United States’ largest cash crop.”

—Booklist

“Witty, civilized and intelligent narcotourism.”

–Kirkus Reviews

"Smith's quest is to discover the essence of 'dankness'. . . .a stoner's dream job."

 --Publishers Weekly

"Wickedly entertaining.  Mark Haskell Smith goes on a quest for the world's finest cannabis, and uncovers an obsessive global subculture of artisanal growers, seed botanists and connoisseurs — all of them chronically stoned and fiercely competitive, striving like winemakers to express the terroir of their product and achieve thene plus ultraof 'dankness.'  Warning: this book may produce an uncontrollable urge to get high."

—Richard Grant, author ofGod's Middle FingerandCrazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa

"A genially gonzo ride to the top of the cannabis world.  Haskell Smith's prose crackles with unputdownable verve and his affection and enthusiasm for his subject are infectious.  This book will change the way you look at the Cannabusiness."

--Heather Donahue, author ofGrowgirl