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The Cannabis Experience: An Interpretive Study of the Effects of Marijuana and Hashish.
London: Peter Owen, 1974. First edition. Black boards. 288pp.
SIGNED and inscribed by Joseph Berke to the book's publisher on the title page: “for Peter with warm regards Joe Berke ap 74”.
One of the first studies to present a large survey of cannabis users (more than 500), quoting their experiences of the effects and relating these to factors such as personality and environment.
Berke trained as a psychoanalyst with RD Laing (with whom he helped establish the anti-psychiatry centre at Kingsley Hall), organised the Dialectics of Liberation conference in 1967, and co-founded the Anti-University of London in the following year.
Fine in Near Fine dw.
