Once literally demonized as "the devil's lettuce" and linked to all manner of deviant behavior by the establishments' shameless antimarijuana propaganda campaigns, Cannabis sativa has lately been enjoying a long-overdue renaissance. So now that the squares seem ready to rethink pot's place in polite society, how can member of this vibrant, innovative, life-affirming culture proudly and properly emerge from the underground - without forgetting our roots or losing our cool?

In How to Smoke Pot (Properly), VICE columnist and former High Times editor Davis Bienenstock charts the course for this bold, new-prohibition world. Readers will learn the basics of blazing weed; follow the herb's natural life cycle from farm to pipe; explore cannabis customs, culture, and travel; and discover how to best utilize and appreciate a plant that's at once lifesaving medicine, an incredibly nutritious food, an amazingly useful industrial crop, and a truly renewable energy source.