What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin: Mind-Altering Essays on Marijuana

by Sebastian Marincolo

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Author: Sebastian Marincolo

Publisher: Khargala Press

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ISBN 10: 3981771206
ISBN 13: 978-3981771206

What is it like to be high on marijuana? Can a cannabis high help to remember long gone events, to fuel your imagination, to work creatively, to come to introspective and other insights, to empathically understand others, and to personally grow? How much did cannabis inspire outstanding thinkers, artists and musicians like Charles Baudelaire, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Benjamin, Billie Holiday, Diego Rivera, John Lennon, Carl Sagan, Hal Ashby, and so many others? And how much did the marijuana high positively transfom our society?

"What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin - Mind-Altering Essays on Cannabis" is a collection of 20 groundbreaking neurophilosophically inspired essays on the astounding positive potential of the cannabis high. The essays summarize more than ten years of Marincolos research and are written for a wide audience. This deep new exploration of the marijuana high as an altered state of consiousness addresses educated marijuana users and their relatives, medical cannabis professionals and patients, as well as neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers interested in the subject of altered states of consciousness.

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"Sebastian Marincolo's work is terrific and is going to make a big contribution to the field." Lester Grinspoon, medical marijuana expert and Harvard Associate Prof. Emer. for Psychiatry "Marincolo's writing and manner of thinking are excellent - I am enthusiastic about recommending his work." Michael Backes, author of „Cannabis Pharmacy - The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana

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People around the world are beginning to acknowledge the positive potential of cannabis. But there is still a remarkable lack of research concerning the most interesting effect of the plant: What is it like to be high? Can a marijuana high temporarily enhance mental processes, such as pattern recognition, imagination, creativity, empathic understanding, and our ability to generate deep insights? And how much did it positively influence artists, scientists, musicians, and writers, such as the marijuana users Charles Baudelaire, Billie Holiday, The Beatles, Carl Sagan, or Walter Benjamin - and with them, crucial cultural developments such as the early evolution of jazz?

Marincolo's groundbreaking and entertaining essays are based on more than ten years of his neurophilosophical research on the marijuana high and will profoundly change your view on how much marijuana has positively affected individual lives as well as culture throughout the course of history.

Praise for Marincolo's work

"Sebastian Marincolo's work is terrific and is going to make a big contribution to the field."

Dr. Lester Grinspoon, medical marijuana expert and Harvard Associate Prof. Emer. for Psychiatry

"I'm loving it! Wow. What an amazing, important work! Marincolo's book is such a treasure - a unique resource. Such a definitive statement of everything I've been thinking when it comes to marijuana.
I now understand the benefits that Norman Mailer, Carl Sagan, and Richard Feynman got from marijuana."

Jason Silva, filmmaker, public speaker, producer/presenter for Al Gore's Emmy Award winning Current TV, and host for "Brain
Games" on the National Geographic Channel (on "High. Insights on Marijuana", Dog Ear Publishing 2010)

"Marincolo's writing and manner of thinking are excellent - I am enthusiastic about recommending his work."

Michael Backes, author of "Cannabis Pharmacy - The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana"

"Marincolo's book is great evidence that he has further developed a theory of consciousness taking a highly original path. Good philosophers are as comprehensible as possible - they have arguments and do not need to hide anything. I have read the book and enjoyed watching the photos with much delight."

Prof. Emer. Manfred Frank, German philosopher (on "High. Das positive Potential von Marijuana", Klett-Cotta/Tropen Verlag 2013)

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