Book Review of The Leafly Guide to Cannabis: A Handbook for the Modern Consumer, by “The Leafly Team,” 2017

Handbooks for exploring the brave new world of the cannabis flower have been blossoming on the shelves of bookstores and even public libraries. After having researched or read most of the introductory books about cannabis, I can say that this is the best book of its genre. Even cannabis connoisseurs can learn a thing or two from this book. Written in a reader-friendly style, if sometimes chatty, here it is almost as much fun to read about pot as it can be to toke it.

As most of text was compiled from years of content previously posted by its editors to https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101, you can be a cheapskate and resort to searching their website. But no website can present its content in as orderly a fashion as here. Besides, as a durable hardbound book, its price is right. On the other hand, one-third of the content is photos, not text, and those photos are sometimes blurry and mostly irrelevant to the text on whose pages the photos appear. As inexpensive as this book is for a hardback, without all the useless photos it could have been cheaper still.

Because its authorship is “The Leafly Team,” there’s more authority and expertise shared here in one place than you might find in books written by one mere mortal author. Now more than three years old in rapidly progressing field that is cannabis, this book is deserving of an updated and revised edition, and I hope one that will delete many of the useless photos or, even better, replace them with photos that really do illustrate the text. In case the editors or publisher happen to read my review, I wish to point out a minor factual error on page 115 that needs correcting in the revised edition. The boiling point of benzene is not 365 degrees F. It is only 176 F, which is 80 degrees C, which is 353 K. Someone may have confused the Kelvin for Fahrenheit.