CANNABIS CULTURE

Observer What exactly happens when you get stoned? Why does your mouth dry up and why do you become so interested in food and sex? Why can some people work when they’re stoned and others can’t? What are the tobacco companies’ plans for exploiting the potential legal market? How come there’s so much cannabis found in prisons and how does it get there? Who brings it across national borders? Patrick Matthews has won the ’Wines from France 1995 Premier Cru’ award for wine writing and was shortlisted for the Glenfiddich and André Simon awards for his book The Wild Bunch - Great Wines From Small Producers in 1998. He brings his connoisseur’s approach and journalist’s questioning eye to the subject, to produce the essential cannabis companion.