Marijuana and Cannabis News
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| Graphic: Peter Pauper Press |
| It's "too controversial" for the uptight Chinese, but ready for you on September 15 |
The worldwide release of an American book on cannabis has been delayed, due to the refusal of the communist government of China to allow its binding on Chinese soil, according to the publisher.
The Little Black Book of Marijuana, by yours truly, Toke of the Town editor Steve Elliott, was scheduled for availability on August 1, but that printing schedule was thrown off after the totalitarian Chinese government decided the book was "too controversial" to even allow the printed pages inside the tightly-run dictatorship.
"Our printer is located in Hong Kong, with binderies in mainland China," production manager Ginny Reynolds of Peter Pauper Press explained to me Friday morning. "Usually it's no problem to move printed books from Hong Kong to China for binding.
"However, Chinese censorship is extremely tight," Reynolds told Toke of the Town. "Any content deemed 'sensitive' or 'controversial' by their standards is banned."
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| Photo: alapoet |
| Steve Elliott: "You can always tell a totalitarian dictatorship, because they're afraid of the truth." |
"We have the same problem with our books on sexuality," she told me. "The printer has to arrange for binding in Hong Kong, and facilities there are limited and overbooked in the summer season.
Basically, what this means for prospective readers of The Little Black Book of Marijuana is that instead of an August 1 availability date, we are now looking at a delay until around September 15. Believe me, that doesn't make me any happier than it does you. In fact, it frustrates the hell out of me.
You wanna talk about frustration? The book is already bound, at this point -- but it's literally on a slow boat from China. The damned thing is somewhere in the mid-Pacific, chugging this way at a glacial pace, and there ain't shit you or I can do, except maybe fire up a doob and wait.
"We're doing everything we can to speed things along, although I know patience is hard to come by!" Reynolds said. "We were unaware of the extent of the delays until recently."
So, for those of you who have already ordered The Little Black Book of Marijuana: The Essential Guide to the World of Cannabis, I offer my sincere apologies. You will receive your books, just a month later than planned.
The book is already available in electronic format at Amazon (Kindle), Barnes and Noble (Nook) and iTunes.
Now, who'd care to join me in a big shout?: FUCK CENSORSHIP!
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| Graphic: Peter Pauper Press |
| Here's a sneak peek at the photo section of The Little Black Book of Marijuana. |
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hey steve nice of ya to reply on my behalf. as you can see i'm not the only one that feels that way!! so why dnt you go sale your book in china? o you can't . i feel for ya dude. NOT.maybe you need to try a different strain . one that will help u with your anger LOL. from my side of the screen u look like a greedy filthy mouth angry little man.
The fact that China has done this could make for some EXCELLENT marketing. Use their dickheadishness and promote it. Nothing makes something sell better than being censored or banned.
Sorry to hear it, Steve. I'm surprised the printers didn't think about this before they sent it to China. Are there not any US based publishers that could have handled the whole job? (I've always wondered how people self publish physical books...)
It is an American publisher, Einstein. Peter Pauper Press is located in New York.
BUY AMERICAN AND PUT AMERICANS TO WORK. Labor unions like the graphic communication workers would love to bind this product. The way to a strong middle class is through labor unions - the way to build this economy is buy American. Tax breaks never increased demand!
Hey Steve, China FEARS you. China is huge, that's quite an accomplishment. CONGRATULATIONS! The really fucked up thing is I'm sitting under a Banner of "Cannabis History" The first line is "Born in Asia about 8,000 B.C." and it goes on to talk about the first clothing worn by humans and Chinese Tombs having Cannabis for the afterlife. About how Cannabis was considered a Magical Herb in ancient China and was used to treat everything from Malaria to Labor Pains. The whole first third of the History takes place IN CHINA... Sorry they're acting like assholes. Maybe you should tell them about how Hemp Seed Porridge was a Food Staple in Ancient China (until 200 B.C.) and their ancestors all would have starved without it. Fuck Censorship!! and Fuck Oppressive Governments. Fuck Prohibition too.
Damn! After the way we pot smoking radicals boosted sales of Mao's Little Red Book back in the sixties, they pull a stunt like this? What a bunch of blue nosed Reds!
What will conservative Christians think when they read all these curse words. Watch your language people
Haha Steve, I applaud you for not being in the slightest bit afraid to display your thoughts. Your frustration with the delay is really apparent, really sorry to hear about it, fuck censorship and control freaks. But definitely be proud in the fact that your book made some people shake in their boots at the truth. After all, the truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
have them printed in AMERICA. i hope more of china's junk stays in china thats whats wrong with america people like this guy wants the most profit but wants americans to buy it for the same price if it was made in america greedy bastards
"People like this guy?" FUCK YOU, Dan.
It's the publisher's decision to have the book printed in China, you dumb fuck stick.
Yeah, home of the good old DEA! and good old Homeland Security! and the good old War On Drugs!
Say what you want about the US (free speech and all), but we got the best weed anywhere-AND the book could have easily been printed here-no censorship problems whatsoever (free speech and all)...
First of all, the US does not have the best weed. If you think this, this means you have only smoked junk from the states.
As far your free speech rant, please. Do you know your country at all?
Agree that censorship sucks - especially when it's so blatantly political and at odds with reality. Also agree that having the work done here (if you could find anyone) would have been a better choice, as would printing it all on pure hemp paper and organic inks, etc. but the impact on the affordability would have sucked too.
Hats off for writing it and getting it out there at all - I'll be happy to pick one up when they get here, tanned, rested and relaxed from the long cruise from China.
Of course, decisions on where the book is printed and bound, and the type of paper it is printed upon, are made by the publishers (who hired me to write it) and not by the author.
This is sweet & sour since the publicity will be huge & greatly help the mainstreaming of its theme;nonetheless,we must fight these racist anti-antithesis totalitarians who have a secret funding agreement for US military hegemony. China funds the imperialism of Amerika. This Nixonian secret alliance ensures selective prosecution of anything that threatens this ignoble union. This may have WarBomba not able to change course as the Drug War can condemn all antithesis,or the CIA has photos of him at Man's emporium in Chgo being gay & cocaine saturated. Just saying we need to look deeper at our inability to get taken as HUMAN beings with rights... as we discover our symbiosis of evolution with Cannabis/Hemp.
Whatever, but thinly-disguised homophobia ("being gay" -- really? so the FUCK what??) doesn't get it, around this place.
I agree that bigotry is wrong,yet...this is how politicos have been controlled-PERIOD--I'm looking for answers why he's 180 changed since taking office. It's a tough subject to broach,yet to mention it doesn't make you homophobic...deal with my two serious points...a secret alliance or possible his secret life--many others could be constructed--freedom of speech is a bitch !
To broach a subject about WarBomba's possible gay& coke background doesn't make you homophobic,but it could explain his behavior if your willing to examine all variables. Secrets kill also.
It DOES provide Americans with jobs - ME, the photographers who worked with me, and all the people at Peter Pauper Press in New York.
