{"id":7495,"date":"2016-05-10T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T18:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:58:36","slug":"the-proper-pot-smoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/10\/the-proper-pot-smoker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proper Pot-smoker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/04\/how-to-smoke-pot-properly-keep-weed-weird-david-bienenstock\" target=\"_blank\">from Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The Author of\u00a0<em>How to Smoke Pot (Properly)<\/em>\u00a0Wants to Keep Weed Weird, Even When It\u2019s Legal<\/h1>\n<p>BY\u00a0<a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/contributor\/andrea-whittle\" target=\"_blank\">ANDREA WHITTLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/5717890e31907e1e0ace0f95\/master\/h_606,c_limit\/david-bienenstock-qa-smoke-pot-properly-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Courtesy of Plume\/Penguin Random House.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Passionate pothead and 15-year veteran journalist\u00a0David Bienenstock\u00a0came up with the idea for his latest book on January 1, 2014\u2014the day America\u2019s first retail marijuana stores opened to anyone 21 or older. The result:\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Smoke-Pot-Properly-Highbrow\/dp\/0147517087\" target=\"_blank\">How to Smoke Pot (Properly)<\/a><\/em>, a pocket-size book that examines the past, present, and future of marijuana in an era of rapid change for the drug\u2019s social acceptability. Published this month by Plume Books, Bienenstock takes readers on a humorous and informative trip through the drug\u2019s various medicinal compounds, a timeline of the its history, and recipes that take you beyond the standard pot brownie\u2014with pro tips from cannabis-friendly celebrities sprinkled throughout.\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0spoke to the\u00a0<em>Vice<\/em>\u00a0columnist, former\u00a0<em>High Times<\/em>\u00a0editor, and founder of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscustomtours.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">curated cannabis tourism company<\/a>\u00a0about marijuana culture, the double-edged sword of legalization, and how to fit in if you\u2019re thinking of joining the so-called \u201cgreen rush.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Vanity Fair<\/em>: In the book\u2019s introduction, you write, \u201cPlease think of this humble tome in your hands not just as a handbook or a guidebook, but a call to metaphorical arms.\u201d How would you summarize your \u201cmission statement\u201d for this book?<\/p>\n<p><em>David Bienenstock:<\/em>\u00a0I think the book looks at where marijuana culture is right now and where we\u2019re going, and I think it\u2019s important amid all the excitement of legalization to realize that this culture and the people who grow and consume and share this plant are still being oppressed all over the world and even in the United States. So while we\u2019ve gained a tremendous amount of freedom in places like Colorado and Washington, you go across the Colorado border into Kansas and you still have families being torn apart by this unconscionable war on weed. So I think the call, first of all, is to never forget that this is an ongoing campaign against this terribly misguided government policy, and that it\u2019s [our responsibility] to participate not just in our own liberation but in everyone else\u2019s. As long as one person is being oppressed for smoking marijuana, none of us are really free.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/04\/how-to-smoke-pot-properly-keep-weed-weird-david-bienenstock\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at VF<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Vanity Fair The Author of\u00a0How to Smoke Pot (Properly)\u00a0Wants to Keep Weed Weird, Even When It\u2019s Legal BY\u00a0ANDREA WHITTLE Courtesy of Plume\/Penguin Random House. Passionate pothead and 15-year veteran journalist\u00a0David Bienenstock\u00a0came up with the idea for his latest book on January 1, 2014\u2014the day America\u2019s first retail marijuana stores opened to anyone 21 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}