Book details

  • Genre:health & fitness
  • Sub-genre:Cannabis & CBD
  • Language:English
  • Pages:212
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317802493

Pot Safari

A Visit to the Top Marijuana Researchers in the U.S.

By Peggy Mann

Overview

Peggy Mann has written more magazine and newspaper articles about the health hazards of marijuana than any other writer in the world. Pot Safari (first published in 1982) is her first book on the subject. It is based on information she gathered during a four month "Safari" to visit the most important marijuana researchers in the United States. She spent from two to four days with each of them, in their laboratories. In doing so, she learned much vital information about the biological health hazards of marijuana to the body which had never before been presented the American public. In this 2025 re-issue of Pot Safari, original source material is returned to the public with a new Foreword by Kenneth Finn,M.D., Editor of the book, Cannabis in Medicine: a Scientific Approach, plus a new Preface by Emily Dufton, author of "Grass Roots; the Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America, as well as additional commentary by Dr. Robert DuPont, Founder of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
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Description

Peggy Mann has written more magazine and newspaper articles about the health hazards of marijuana than any other writer in the world. Pot Safari (first published in 1982) is her first book on the subject. It is based on information she gathered during a four month "Safari" to visit the most important marijuana researchers in the United States. She spent from two to four days with each of them, in their laboratories. In doing so, she learned much vital information about the biological health hazards of marijuana to the body which had never before been presented the American public. Peggy Mann, was honored in 1985 at a US Congressional reception as "The Nation's foremost drug abuse prevention author." In this 2025 re-issue of Pot Safari, original source material is returned to the public with a new Foreword by Dr. Kenneth Finn, Editor of the book, Cannabis in Medicine: a Scientific Approach, plus a new Preface by Emily Dufton, author of "Grass Roots; the Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America, as well as additional commentary by Dr. Robert DuPont, Founder of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Written in an engaging and readable style, this book conveys scientific information about marijuana's harm to various systems in the body: the brain; sex and reproduction; pregnancy; lungs and heart the immune system. This book is aimed at concerned parents, educators, medical professionals, government officials as well as teenagers who are facing peer pressure to get high. In today's world legislation has decriminalised the use of marijuana and made it legal for recreational and/or medical use in most of the United States, as well as in much of the Western world. The information found in this book is a much-needed counterbalance to the tide of misinformation and the popular perception that marijuana can be beneficial to ones health. In recent years, certain medical experts on marijuana felt that this information, which is as relevant today as it was forty years ago, should be re-issued and made available to the wider public.
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About The Author

Peggy Mann (born July 24, 1924, New York City - died July 19 1990, New York City). As a staff writer on the Reader's Digest magazine, and author of more than 35 books in addition to hundreds of magazine articles, Peggy Mann was best known for her writing on the health hazards of marijuana, and was honored in 1985 by the US Congress as "The nation's number one drug abuse prevention author." She is still known for having written more about marijuana than anyone else in the world: her books on the subject included Marijuana Alert (with a foreword by First Lady Nancy Reagan); Arrive Alive: How to Keep Drunk and Drugged Drivers off the Road; Twelve is Too Old; The Sad Story of Mary Wanna and Pot Safari: A Visit to the Top Marijuana Researchers in the US. She began her career as a children's book writer, addressing universal subjects such as a young child preparing for the birth of a sibling in That New Baby; a child who tells fibs in The Boy with a Billion Pets; parables of community life in "Lawrence the Lion with Laryngitis" (later retitled Lawrence the Alarm Clock); an urban love story between two lonely seniors brought together by a lost cat in William the Watch Cat; and tough themes such as divorce in My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel and losing a parent to cancer in Two Kinds of Terrible. The latter two were made into television movies. New York City's Upper West Side was a favorite location for many of her books for young readers. Born and raised there, Peggy and her English husband, William Houlton, bought a brownstone in the 1960s on West 94th Street, where they raised two daughters. She wrote a series for and about neighborhood kids, mostly from Puerto Rico, who were often the bridges for their families into a new country. These included The Street of the Flower Boxes, which became a Peabody Award-winning television movie that inspired a movement for neighborhood beautification; The Clubhouse; How Carlos Closed the Street and The Secret Dog of Little Luis. As a young writer living in Paris in the 1950s, Peggy wrote her first adult novel, A Room in Paris, which was made into a movie with John Cassavetes as well as a Broadway play. She also wrote numerous biographies, including those of Golda Meir, Amelia Earhart, Clara Barton, Luis Muñoz Marin, Peter Still and Whitney Young, Jr. The Last Escape, a major work published in 1973, told the true story of a young woman's secret rescue mission prior to World War II. Sadly, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and passed away at the untimely age of 65. She left behind a substantial body of work focusing on subjects that had rarely been talked about.
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