ABSTRACT
Voluminous information on many aspects concerned with the nonmedical use of cannabis is available in drug counterculture/underground publications, both in print and on the Web. Such works typically advocate (explicitly or implicitly) the consumption of restricted (usually proscribed) drugs for recreational use and additionally often provide instructions for obtaining, preparing, or using such drugs. Most of these publications are authored anonymously or under pseudonyms. Particular publications may not be illicit (habitually, phrases like “Do not contravene any local laws!” are inserted, tongue-in-cheek); they may not entirely represent the counterculture (usually conceived of as representing a minority viewpoint); and they may not be underground (some jurisdictions are more permissive with respect to illicit drugs than others, and cannabis books that once could have led to prosecution are now being widely printed and circulated by the publishing industry). An appreciable proportion of the information in most of these publications is either invalid or seriously suspect. On the other hand, some of the content has been compiled as a result of careful observation, experimentation and/or inventiveness and is often mentioned in this book.
