Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana

(Hardback)

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Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana offers todays very best cannabis strains in glorious full color. The Primer section explores the culture that surrounds this complex flower and explains the botany that makes each strain unique. The Buds section highlights the pertinent details and colorful past of 170 buds. Organized alphabetically, each bud is lovingly depicted with hyper-detailed photography alongside essential stats about lineage, flavor, high, and medicinal uses. Smart, practical, and very, very beautiful, Green is essential reading for both the cannabis connoisseur and the occasional toker.

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"a handsomely produced coffee-table book...One hundred and seventy strains of grass are described in terms familiar to oenophiles. 'Blue Kush is a tasty combination of blueberry and lavender sweetness contrasted with subtle sour and spice undertones, ' Michaels writes. In the eye-catching photography of Erik Christiansen, samples of those strains appear as curious abstractions created by 'color correction techniques' that presumably bring the buds to life in the cannabis equivalent of Technicolor."
-Shepherd Express
"an impossibly beautiful lookbook"
-Willamette Week
"Author Dan Michaels and photography Erik Christiansen have broken down the hundreds of strains ..pairing each type with gorgeous, high-quality imagery"
-Mashable
"Finally! A highly specific, rainbow-free encyclopedia of marijuana! Written by Dan Michaels with photos from Erik Christiansen, Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana is rigorous in it's coverage of everything from bud biology to paraphernalia, with entries on how to roll, smoking etiquette (don't hit and run, brah!), and 75 words on whatever the hell QWISO is. Plus it's got more than 150 high resolution pictures of the stinkiest, gnarliest, hold-me-I'm-loosing-it strains of ganja you've ever laid eyes upon."
-GQ Magazine
"Of the dozens of marijuana books that fill the shelves each year, Dan Michaels and Erik Christiansen's book Green has received the most critical acclaim. The large coffeetable book is part cannabis research (Michaels), part beautiful cannabis photography (Christiansen)... it goes into depth about everything from botany to flavor."
-The Daily Beast
"The Most Beautiful Book About Weed You've Ever Seen.. It's a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to marijuana strains. With weed porn photos by Erik Christiansen...the book avoids the hippie-stoner visual cliches long associated with weed in the popular imagination."
-FastCoDesign

Author Bio

Chris Erikson has been honing his eye for shooting cannabis since 2009. Through his specialized macro-photography and color correction techniques, his unique images capture the true essence of the marijuana flower with unparalleled detail. Chris founded and currently runs Nugshots.com, a photography blog dedicated to showcasing the varied beauty of the cannabis flower. Dan Michaels is the founder of Sinsemedia, a cannabis research and insight group. His experience in cannabis culture and connoisseurship alongside his savvy branding and marketing background has made him a sought after consultant and strategist in the emerging legal marijuana industry. Find out more at Sinsemedia.com.