Review by Booklist Review
Cervantes, an expert on cannabis cultivation, is well known in certain circles for his YouTube videos, international articles, and 20 previous books. His latest is a compendium of everything anyone would want to know about growing cannabis for personal use specifically, medical use.The book opens with a chapter on the history of medical use and background information for patients and smoothly segues into full cultivation and gardening details. There are chapters on germinating seeds, growing techniques, and other horticultural concerns. There are also case-study chapters, which look at indoor gardens versus outdoor. Information on making tinctures and concentrates and on cooking with cannabis rounds out the book. The volume is chock-full of color photographs and illustrations, and the book ends with an impressive index. Now that several states have legalized marijuana and others are looking to decriminalize it, libraries may find more patrons looking for resources on the topic (oh, they've been looking, but they may not have been eager to ask about it or to check something out). This resource is suitable for most libraries.--Vnuk, Rebecca Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Library Journal Review
This update of the author's 2006 Marijuana Horticulture is revised and expanded, offering close to twice the information of the previous title and 2,000 new color photographs and computer-generated illustrations. It also has a more academic-looking cover-it is quite textbook-like, whereas the cover of the previous work had a juvenile, psychedelic appearance. The book provides a comprehensive, detailed, and precise look at aspects of cannabis cultivation in sections covering medical cannabis, botanical classification, and medical varieties; the life cycle of the plant; advice for advanced growers; and postharvest information for medical users. An appendix discusses the author's career and includes an index. While the presentation is for lay readers, it offers enough information and especially an abundance of helpful plant diagnostic and other images that will cause even those with much growing experience to delve into this resource routinely. VERDICT Essential where patrons grow, or are interested in growing, their own cannabis.-Henrietta Verma, Library Journal © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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