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6 Distinguished Reviews OF THE BOOKS IN THIS TRILOGY INCLUDE:

"A superb trilogy, especially from the pictorial viewpoint. Each of these books should go far in an educational effort towards understanding the use of Cannabis as a psychoactive plant. As interest in the use of Cannabis products as psychoactive agents increases, books like these serve in providing a picture of the worldwide significance of the plant as a mind altering aspect of human culture that goes back for a millennia in certain areas of the globe. I look forward to subsequent volumes".

Dr. RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES, Ph.D., Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Director Botanical Museum, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. ______________________________________________________________________________

"These LAURENCE CHERNIAK books are a most important contribution to our library of evolution. He combines scholarly research, anthropological sensitivity, photographic genius and human insights to remind us that these holy plants come from the earth, are cultivated by people close to the land and used by those who wish to remain in union with life. His are beautiful affirmative books LAURENCE CHERNIAK is an inspiration. It`s my pleasure to say so. Regarding our last hug... "our eyes met ... our brains cheered!" Anything that has to do with freedom, good humor, fun and funny talk is LAURENCE"

Dr. TIMOTHY LEARY. ______________________________________________________________________________

"The first time I saw these photographs by LAURENCE CHERNIAK, I felt like a test pilot suddenly thrust into a new dimension, riding a magic carpet to the fabled lands of hashish...I knew at once this was the best essay in drug photography I'd ever seen, a master work...CHERNIAK acts as a hierophant, revealing the mysteries of hashishology with imagination, intelligence and respect."

"I first saw Laurence's books in the early 70's. They were the finest quality books, color photos and explanations that I have ever seen on cannabis and hashish. No one, even comes close to Cherniak's comprehensive photos and editorials. All these years have passed and Laurence can still be proud of having the finest photographs of cannabis and hashish that I have ever seen. I grew up on his books".

JACK HERER, Author, THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES ______________________________________________________________________________

"LAURENCE CHERNIAK's books are very far above all the other books that I have seen in the last 25 years regarding marijuana and hashish. Laurence always gives me the sense of living splendidly while travelling around in a great big world. Reading his books transports you on a journey throughout the continents, showing not only the richest substances: but also the people".

BEN DRONKERS, Founder of SENSI SEEDS, Holland. ______________________________________________________________________________

No one had ever taken photographs of high quality hashish with such obvious loving care.

Indeed, no one had taken photographs of any hashish until LAURENCE CHERNIAK happened along. Ever the innovator, LAURENCE CHERNIAK made the photography of grass buds an artform.

My what a man of many skills. Not only is LAURENCE CHERNIAK creator of the Great Books of Hashish a masterful writer, photographer and a professional dope smoker extraordinaire but also an actor, star of screen and community theatre stages, a musician, a scriptwriter, an artist, a poet, a designer, a computer buff, an unrestrained self publicist, a registered solutions consultant with Apple Computers but also, he lets slip in one of the books, a trained ballet dancer. LAURENCE CHERNIAK has recently produced a set of cannabis playing cards and a CD-Rom of his inimitable pictures of grass leaves.

When the first volume of the Great Books of Hashish appeared on the new publications table of the Compendium Bookshop near London’s famous Camden Lock, it was a galvanising experience. Although the far off post-hippy days when books on cannabis could still be counted on the fingers of less than half a hand had gone, the appearance -- in 1979 -- of The Great Books of Hashish was a mind-waking, earth-shaking, ground-breaking publishing event.

DAVID RUSSELL, Editor of CoffeeHouse Culture. Holland.
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