THIS BUD’S FOR YOU - A New Book by Ed Rosenthal
“This Bud’s for You. Legal Marijuana: Selecting, Growing & Enjoying Cannabis” is a breath-taking celebration of the birth of legal marijuana.
There’s no need to introduce Ed Rosenthal here – he contibutes greatly as a writer to almost every issue of Soft Secrets Magazine. Just a quick reminder that in his more than forty years as the “guru of ganja,” he has written or edited over a dozen books on marijuana that have cumulatively sold more than a million copies. This means that expectations and hopes are always high with his new publications.
“This Bud’s for You” is filled with tips and ideas from breeders, as you’d expect from a book by Rosenthal. Especially the second part of the book, which is a survey of great new varieties that are commercially available today, including new strains with high levels of CBD. Many new names here: new strains, new companies, a new generation of breeders. The selections in the book are part of this new wave.
But “This Bud’s for You” is much more than your typical grow book. The first section is a compilation of articles and essays by many authors covering a wide range of topics, from the emerging CBD market to scientific extraction methods. There is a chapter ”Women in Weed” about the growing influence of good female energy in the cannabis industry. In “Styling an Industry” we meet another influential woman in the cannabiz, Randi – the photographer behind the lens at DevilsLettucePH. Randi is a medical marijuana patient and sees her work as a way to give back, since cannabis was able to help her so much. A former software engineer at a tech company, now she’s a true artist of marijuana photography redefining the design aesthetics of cannabis and taking it into the new legal era. This means applying upscale marketing techniques, similar to the advertising campaign for a beautiful bottle of perfume. She truly puts her heart into her pictures – these photos will blow your mind away!
Being a hashish lover, I was happy to read “The Lost Art of Temple Balls” and the chapters about new powerful extracts. Just like dabs were a seismic shi(f)t, marking the new era in hashish-making (see “710 Glossary” and “Cannabis Concentrates – Extraction’s Resin Renaissance” for more interesting details), this anthology takes cannabis literature into the 21st century. Talk about the quality of photography and publishing nowadays! The photos show, often in microscopic detail, the unbelieveable hues and elegant beauty of many strains of cannabis, of many kinds of hash and oil, of the liquid amber and gold of concentrates... This book looks so good you want to eat it like marijuana candy!
It’s often said that a good picture equals a thousand words and Rosenthal’s new book proves it. Imagine Beauty and Knowledge rolled together, and you’ll have an idea how powerful this love bomb is. This book lets you see what legal marijuana truly looks like – and it looks reallly good! It gives us a glimpse into the bright future for cannabis connoisseurs – a future nobody can take away from us now, not even president Trump. (He can only delay it – but let’s hope not.)
“This Bud’s for You” is one of the greatest gifts from cannabis authors and publishers to the world at large. It has the potential to turn many heads, inspire many new growers, attract more believers to the cause, more fans of Mary Jane. Even fanatics – it’s such an attention-grabber. In better times (pre-Trump) it could have easily helped bring legal marijuana and gardening into mainstream culture. It’s informative and well written, beautifully portrayed and illustrated, and professionally published.
As Ed Rosenthal writes in the Introduction, this book is a celebration of an historical moment. We are witnessing the change from marijuana as pariah, to enthusiasm for its medical potential, and ultimately the acceptance of its recreational use. In spite of fake news, propaganda, scare tactics, jailings, destruction of reputations and property, and the opposition of much of political and corporate culture, Marijuana Has Won the War.
“This Bud’s for You” will be sowing the paradise seeds globally. Big time.
This book’s for you, definitely!
Sebastian Daniel
“This Bud’s for You” is filled with tips and ideas from breeders, as you’d expect from a book by Rosenthal. Especially the second part of the book, which is a survey of great new varieties that are commercially available today, including new strains with high levels of CBD. Many new names here: new strains, new companies, a new generation of breeders. The selections in the book are part of this new wave.
But “This Bud’s for You” is much more than your typical grow book. The first section is a compilation of articles and essays by many authors covering a wide range of topics, from the emerging CBD market to scientific extraction methods. There is a chapter ”Women in Weed” about the growing influence of good female energy in the cannabis industry. In “Styling an Industry” we meet another influential woman in the cannabiz, Randi – the photographer behind the lens at DevilsLettucePH. Randi is a medical marijuana patient and sees her work as a way to give back, since cannabis was able to help her so much. A former software engineer at a tech company, now she’s a true artist of marijuana photography redefining the design aesthetics of cannabis and taking it into the new legal era. This means applying upscale marketing techniques, similar to the advertising campaign for a beautiful bottle of perfume. She truly puts her heart into her pictures – these photos will blow your mind away!
Being a hashish lover, I was happy to read “The Lost Art of Temple Balls” and the chapters about new powerful extracts. Just like dabs were a seismic shi(f)t, marking the new era in hashish-making (see “710 Glossary” and “Cannabis Concentrates – Extraction’s Resin Renaissance” for more interesting details), this anthology takes cannabis literature into the 21st century. Talk about the quality of photography and publishing nowadays! The photos show, often in microscopic detail, the unbelieveable hues and elegant beauty of many strains of cannabis, of many kinds of hash and oil, of the liquid amber and gold of concentrates... This book looks so good you want to eat it like marijuana candy!
It’s often said that a good picture equals a thousand words and Rosenthal’s new book proves it. Imagine Beauty and Knowledge rolled together, and you’ll have an idea how powerful this love bomb is. This book lets you see what legal marijuana truly looks like – and it looks reallly good! It gives us a glimpse into the bright future for cannabis connoisseurs – a future nobody can take away from us now, not even president Trump. (He can only delay it – but let’s hope not.)
“This Bud’s for You” is one of the greatest gifts from cannabis authors and publishers to the world at large. It has the potential to turn many heads, inspire many new growers, attract more believers to the cause, more fans of Mary Jane. Even fanatics – it’s such an attention-grabber. In better times (pre-Trump) it could have easily helped bring legal marijuana and gardening into mainstream culture. It’s informative and well written, beautifully portrayed and illustrated, and professionally published.
As Ed Rosenthal writes in the Introduction, this book is a celebration of an historical moment. We are witnessing the change from marijuana as pariah, to enthusiasm for its medical potential, and ultimately the acceptance of its recreational use. In spite of fake news, propaganda, scare tactics, jailings, destruction of reputations and property, and the opposition of much of political and corporate culture, Marijuana Has Won the War.
“This Bud’s for You” will be sowing the paradise seeds globally. Big time.
This book’s for you, definitely!
Sebastian Daniel
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