Pot Safari

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 "e;Safari"e; 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 "e;The Nation's foremost drug abuse prevention author."e;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 "e;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.