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| the Plant | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Dudgeon
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 366125
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 150
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 1419640151
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781419640155
ASIN: 1419640151
Publication Date: July 5, 2006
Release Date: July 5, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
the Plant is a gripping tale of the near future, on a global scale, and follows the story of two friends - Johnson, the businessman, and Smith, the dreamer, both staunch supporters of Marijuana and Hemp legalization - who had founded an activist magazine in the 1990s.
Smith had become disillusioned with the seemingly unwinnable struggle, and disappointed with American society and its resistance to change, even when it means dramatic improvements to the economy and environment.He moves to Venezuela where he believes he can spend the rest of his life in peace and quiet, living off the land, and forgetting about the failing push toward a better world.Meanwhile, his friend, Johnson, continues to fight against insurmountable odds, adding a small team of bright, ambitious go-getters to his cause.With growing global terrorism and a near-World War at hand, federal and public fears due to the confusion between Marijuana and Industrial Hemp, and increasing and deadly opposition to the battles for Marijuana law reform, they truly have their work cut out for them.
Nearly two decades later, Smith returns from the depths of seclusion to discover that the world is nothing like what he left behind.What has happened is not only shocking, but, for him, life-altering.
From the Author, Dan L Dudgeon
'The story within the Plant spans over twenty years, and encompasses the recent past, the present, and the possibilities for the future.And although the cultivation of Industrial Hemp as a natural resource is not my only desire for the future of America, and inevitably the entire planet, I feel it is a very significant one.
The question posed by the book is:Can one plant bring about all the positive results promised by the research of the past, and the present struggles of so many Hemp supporters?The answer is of course my own personal perspective.But it is a great surprise, and you will have to read it to find out!'
From Skunk Magazine
Gas prices are ballooning ridiculously, the environment is turning to shit, the Middle East crisis is escalating to biblical proportions, prohibition has brought the War on Drugs to a head, and it seems global nuclear destruction is nigh.Yeah, so what else is new?
The plot of the Plant reads like a CNN ticker... Set in the not-too-distant future, Dan L Dudgeon seamlessly pieces together history, current events, and conjecture, making the plot that much more plausible.
Smith, the disillusioned anti-hero, is dragged back from the jungles of South America by his cannabis activist buddy from days gone by to help him lead a new revolution with the power of his mighty pen.A sweet love story is dispersed throughout between our protagonist and Annalisa, an ex-goth, gung-ho ingenue of the pro-hemp rag The H.E.L.P. Chronicles.She's no Mamakind, but I saw much of myself in her eager-beaver attitude. --Mamakind, Senior Editor
Copyright 2006 Skunk Magazine. All rights reserved.
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 print quality? February 23, 2008
i thought the book was very positive, giving hope for a future through mass sanity. it's hard to imagine sometimes as one watches the news unfold. it seems to spiral more towards insanity daily. hemp prohibition has become a grudge match for the man. admitting a 70 some year mistake is hard to do. especially when you take into account all those who have suffered as a result. there are solutions. i remember ten years ago seeing something about a government program already set in place to start up to start biomass agriculture using flax and 'other crops' as they 'become available'. the mechanisms are in place, but those in power have to squeeze out that last little dribble of black juice. biomass agriculture is a forgone conclusion, and the best crop for that is hemp. in response to a post about the print quality. some of the most relevant and politically stirring comentaries in history have been mass produced on newsprint for distribution. i felt the print quality quite good by comparison. perhaps mr. dan l. dudgeon, hardback w/ archieval, acid free paper and goldleaf may have been more appropriate considering the relevance of this topic. get a reality, folks. the topic is worthy, but unless you are daddy warbucks, you are just haplessly bound within the constraints of your resources. mr. dudgeon is obviously a visionary. i could go through any manuscript and find changes i may make, things i may change grammatically, because i am me. mr. dudgeon is himself and his expressions are appreciated. he has obviously done a lot of research and put in a lot of thought. at least he wrote a book. more than one. i haven't even done that yet. have you? the importance and the relevance of this work is in giving us one man's glimpse of perhaps how things might work out in the future in a POSITIVE way, which is something conspicuously lacking in american media. sometimes a little positivity sent out comes back in a big way. a gift that keeps on giving.
 The Plant February 8, 2008
The subject matter and content was somewhat interesting. The negative was the print in the book. The last half of the book had very difficult to read font that were often run together. It looked like pages of typos.
 Great story, Great theme September 22, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great novel, and I am excited to give the first review. I was recommended the book by a friend who saw an ad in Mother Jones magazine, so I bought it. At first I thought I could guess what the story would be about, but you really can't judge a book by its cover, especially in this case. So even though it has a giant "leaf" on the cover, the story is much more about the world in the very near future, and a scary future at that.
At the heart of the story is two guys, one who sticks to his activist lifestyle, while his friend chose to run away from what he thought was a hopeless cause. The book basically picks up around the year 2008, but is partially told through a series of flashbacks that allows the future/past to unfold for the reader without confusion. The story includes a new terrorist group with a sinister plot to ruin America, a Middle East war, a fallout in the global economy, all appearing not too far from reality, and a great ending that will make you think. But it really has something for everyone - action, politics, conspiracy, history, war, comedy, and even romance. It would only disappoint someone that DIDN'T read it. Oh, and there is a portion of the book about the benefits of cultivating industrial hemp, which is apparently different from marijuana.
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