by Stephen Gaskin

Written by one of the most successful countercultural leaders in America, Cannabis Spirituality contains 30 years of herbal wisdom condensed into seven concise and accessible chapters.
Searching for enlightenment, turning on, avoiding abuse, and talking to your children about cannabis are among the essential elements covered. Stephen Gaskin was an instructor in creative writing at San Francisco State College when he began the Monday Night Class in 1967, a weekly discussion of politics, love and religion. After the class attracted over 1,500 people, Gaskin created the world's largest mobile hippie community and went on the road in a caravan of 50 school buses and 400 people in 1970. The caravan landed in Tennessee, where they created The Farm, the most successful countercultural community in America.

Gaskin later founded Plenty International, a private peace corps that built low-budget housing and provided survival skills to Third World communities on four continents. Gaskin served a 1-3 year sentence for cannabis cultivation in 1974. He was the second person in the United States to take a case to the Supreme Court for religious use of cannabis. He is the author of ten previous books, including Monday Night Class, Mind At Play, and Haight Ashbury Flashbacks. He is currently working on an alternative health-care center and retirement-home center called Rocinante.

136 pages, paperback, 4x6.7