By: Alyson Drobnis
As marijuana slowly becomes accepted into society as norm and no longer taboo, it allows different categories of consumption to broaden horizons.
Cannabis-related content and products are endless. There are ceramics, appliances, dog toys and an entire department in Urban Outfitters.
Among the products sprouting from the commercial success and acceptance of marijuana, is the coffee table book.
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From lifestyle, to cookbooks, to gardening, there is something for everyone. These cannabis coffee books are the perfect addition to your living room.
For Your Party
Edibles: Small Bites for the Modern Cannabis Kitchen
These bite sized, sweet and savory recipes seriously surpass the pot brownies you think of when you think cannabis edibles. Not only is the book filled with beautiful pictures, the recipes are for chefs of all levels.
A cookbook with dishes delicious with or without cannabis. As San Francisco Weekly wrote about the book, “Presenting itself as a collection of recipes that simply happen to include cannabis – that truly sets it apart from its predecessors.”
The 4.8/5 star Amazon rating does not exaggerate the quality of this book and the deliciousness within it.
Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss, Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis Cultivation
For the expert and new gardener alike, this marijuana book teaches you how to grow and enjoy cannabis for yourself and others. This comprehensive guide on how to grow marijuana at home brings a whole new meaning to “farm to table”.
There are step-by-step instructions of how to grow, dry and store your marijuana as well as how to roll the perfect joint.
This marijuana book will even show you how to make tinctures and oils. Imagine at the next party you host, when you can brag about the ingredients being grown in your own garden.
Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails & Tonics: The Art of Spirited Drinks and Buzzy-Worthy Libations
The art of crafting the perfect drink for your next party just got a lot more interesting. This marijuana book contains 75 recipes for cocktails, tonics, syrups and so much more.
This book will teach you how to de-carb cannabis to release its full psychoactive effects and enable you to infuse the THC into any drink. For lovers of cannabis and drinks alike, this book is a must.
Bong Appetit
A cookbook for a new generation interested in learning how to make meals infused with cannabis. These thoughtful and sophisticated recipes range from appetizers, salads, and desserts, to pasta and meat entree dishes.
This book breaks down the science of infusing marijuana into oils, butters, milks and more so that you can literally cook anything and have weed in it. This cannabis cookbook is filled with accessible and diverse recipes, Goop says “…this cookbook has something for every taste.”
For Your Art Collection
Cannabis: Marijuana Under the Microscope
This visually stimulating coffee table book is the perfect addition to your art book collection. In a unique look at the combination of art and science, the images inside bring the cannabis plant to life with the utmost detail.
Through the use of electron microscopic images, cutting-edge scannings, X-rays and light micrographs, the reader is able to get up close and personal in a way they’ve never been able to before.
The marijuana book is categorized into 6 different sections with information accompanying each area, highlighting the fascinating and bizarre details of the marijuana plant.
Beauty of Marijuana
Award winning photographer Spurs Broken brings to light beautiful images of 200 strands of marijuana being grown today. Through the encapsulating and imaginative lens of macro photography, Broken captures the unique details of the marijuana plant.
In up close and personal shots like you’ve never seen before, this book highlights the strands, leaves, crystals and more to further prove this plant is a true, natural beauty.
You will also learn about the personalities and characteristics of each strain mentioned in the book, from sativa to indica to hybrids. This is the perfect marijuana coffee table book to add to your living room. Filled with artistic, engaging and stunning shots of the cannabis plant.
Stoner Coffee Table Book
This marijuana coffee table book is meant to be enjoyed and perused while stoned. A guaranteed conversation starter, you may find yourself staring at the interesting photos inside for some time. The pages may be filled with ordinary objects or stimulating pictures, but they will have your full attention nonetheless.
According to the Amazon review, the marijuana book is filled with “…immersive, trippy, funny, meditative and mind-bending images, each page offers a new visual world of wonder…” For your guests, or for yourself, this book will be a great addition to your coffee table and art collection.
For Your Way of Life
Weed: Everything You Want to Know But Are Always Too Stoned to Ask
Named one of the Year’s Most Giftable Coffee-Table books by New York Magazine, this is your comprehensive guide into the marijuana world. From recipes, to etiquette, to places to visit around the world, if you’re interested in learning more about the stoner lifestyle, this coffee table book is for you.
This book is filled with awesome, hand-drawn illustrations as well as interviews with some of cannabis culture’s highest level figures. You will learn not only how to smoke, but how to buy, grow and learn more about marijuana.
As the Amazon review describes, this marijuana coffee table book is the “…essential introduction to pot for both newbies and die-hards alike.”
Mary Jane: The Complete Marijuana Handbook for Women
A guide for the modern woman about how to integrate marijuana into your everyday life. This book contains tips, tricks and all the information you need to know to be a cannabis connoisseur.
From health and wellness to beauty and nutrition, the wide range of topics are informative and interesting. The contents in this marijuana book will teach you, not just about pot, but about a way of life.
Higher Etiquette
Described by the New York Times as “helpful and inquisitive…if this book’s prose had a tail, it would always be wagging”. This marijuana coffee table book helps deconstruct and explain the, newly, social norms of weed culture and lifestyle.
Not only will you learn why different strains affect you in different ways, and why smoking cannabis is different from eating cannabis, you will learn how to be both a fun and responsible pot consumer. This illuminating and fascinating marijuana coffee table book is the best addition to your living room as well as your life.
The marijuana coffee table books listed above are, not only, interesting reads for you and your guests, they also add just the right amount of intrigue to your home decor.
It is no longer wearing weed leaf socks hidden under your pant leg as a small retaliation to “the system”, cannabis is a full fledged lifestyle industry. Learn, create, read and explore the wonderful world of cannabis through these fascinating and enlightening reads that, also, just so happen to look great in your living room.
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Alyson Drobnis is a writer living in Long Island City, New York. Her work focuses on lifestyle, culture and fashion.
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