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The Leafly Guide to Cannabis: A Handbook for the Modern Consumer
A savvy connoisseur's guide from the editors of the world's most popular cannabis platform.
Cannabis is at the very beginning of a craft and educational renaissance. It is emerging from the legislative shadows and a second awakening is people are proactively seeking information about how to properly consume and enjoy it.
And cannabis is a wildly diverse product, even more so than alcohol. Consumers can experience not only different flavor profiles, but also different cerebral and body effects; they can consume using different methods, from vaporization to combustion to topical application; and they can pick and choose between an ever-growing number of different strains and products.
The Leafy Guide to Cannabis provides all the best tips to navigating this growing market in a definitive guide that will enhance every user's enjoyment and high.
Cannabis is at the very beginning of a craft and educational renaissance. It is emerging from the legislative shadows and a second awakening is people are proactively seeking information about how to properly consume and enjoy it.
And cannabis is a wildly diverse product, even more so than alcohol. Consumers can experience not only different flavor profiles, but also different cerebral and body effects; they can consume using different methods, from vaporization to combustion to topical application; and they can pick and choose between an ever-growing number of different strains and products.
The Leafy Guide to Cannabis provides all the best tips to navigating this growing market in a definitive guide that will enhance every user's enjoyment and high.
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240 pages, Hardcover
First published December 5, 2017
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April 22, 2021
An in-depth tool for anyone who has any questions about anything cannabis-related. It’s great for newbies because it doesn’t assume you know the lingo or etiquette. Rather, it’s an easy read that instills confidence and knowledge. I’m much more excited to talk with my bud-tender now.
October 9, 2019
Very informative
May 26, 2025
Handbooks for exploring the brave new world of the cannabis flower have been blossoming on the shelves of bookstores and even public libraries. After having researched or read most of the introductory books about cannabis, I can say that this is the best book of its genre. Even cannabis connoisseurs can learn a thing or two from this book. Written in a reader-friendly style, if sometimes chatty, here it is almost as much fun to read about pot as it can be to toke it.
As most of text was compiled from years of content previously posted by its editors to Leafly.com, you can be a cheapskate and resort to searching their website. But no website can present its content in as orderly a fashion as here. Besides, as a durable hardbound book, its price is right. On the other hand, one-third of the content is photos, not text, and those photos are sometimes blurry and mostly irrelevant to the text on whose pages the photos appear. As inexpensive as this book is for a hardback, without all the useless photos it could have been cheaper still.
Because its authorship is “The Leafly Team,” there’s more authority and expertise shared here in one place than you might find in books written by one mere mortal author. Now more than three years old in rapidly progressing field that is cannabis, this book is deserving of an updated and revised edition, and I hope one that will delete many of the useless photos or, even better, replace them with photos that really do illustrate the text. In case the editors or publisher happen to read my review, I wish to point out a minor factual error on page 115 that needs correcting in the revised edition. The boiling point of benzene is not 365 degrees F. It is only 176 F, which is 80 degrees C, which is 353 K. Someone may have confused the Kelvin for Fahrenheit.
As most of text was compiled from years of content previously posted by its editors to Leafly.com, you can be a cheapskate and resort to searching their website. But no website can present its content in as orderly a fashion as here. Besides, as a durable hardbound book, its price is right. On the other hand, one-third of the content is photos, not text, and those photos are sometimes blurry and mostly irrelevant to the text on whose pages the photos appear. As inexpensive as this book is for a hardback, without all the useless photos it could have been cheaper still.
Because its authorship is “The Leafly Team,” there’s more authority and expertise shared here in one place than you might find in books written by one mere mortal author. Now more than three years old in rapidly progressing field that is cannabis, this book is deserving of an updated and revised edition, and I hope one that will delete many of the useless photos or, even better, replace them with photos that really do illustrate the text. In case the editors or publisher happen to read my review, I wish to point out a minor factual error on page 115 that needs correcting in the revised edition. The boiling point of benzene is not 365 degrees F. It is only 176 F, which is 80 degrees C, which is 353 K. Someone may have confused the Kelvin for Fahrenheit.
July 31, 2018
Wow! Great info. I had no idea that cannabis could be so complicated. But I learned enough to be a better consumer.
April 19, 2019
I found this book to be very useful and informative as it discusses diseases that may be helped by medical marijuana. This is a good source of basic information.
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