The Top 10 Botanical Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

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Have you ever experienced Seasonal Affective Disorder (aka SAD) during the summer months? SAD is typically attributed to the cold and dark of winter. However, for some adults, too much sun and sweltering temperatures can actually lead to anxiety, irritability, sleepless nights, and sadness. While that fact may sound stranger than fiction, did you know that books can provide a remedy? Bibliotherapy, or the therapeutic act of reading, has been shown to expand your mind, relieve stress, and improve emotional wellbeing. If you want to beat the summertime blues try adding these top 10 botanical books to your summer reading list.

The Titles

1. Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Backyard

This guide for new home growers and green thumbs alike teaches pot plant lovers how to intentionally cultivate their own cannabis.

2. The CBD Solution: Sex: How Cannabis, CBD, and Other Plant Allies Can Improve Your Everyday Life

Can CBD improve your sex life? The second book in Merry Jane’s CBD series explores the connection between cannabis and sexual wellness. This book takes a mind-body approach to enhancing intimacy through plant medicine, including recipes for CBD mocktails and CBD lube.

3. A Woman’s Guide to Cannabis: Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Better – and Get High Like a Lady

This high-minded handbook helps women use cannabis to look and feel their best.

4. How to Succeed in the Cannabis Industry: For Professionals, Contractors & Entrepreneurs

Whether you’re a budding side hustler or building a burgeoning hempire, this workbook is a must-have for cannabusiness professionals.

5. The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism: Transform, Heal & Remember with the Power of Plants and Ancestral Medicine

Discover how to make plant magic by learning the spiritual correspondences in herbalism, along with traditional remedies and rituals.

6. The Witches Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic

Learn the origins story of the witches’ hallucinogenic “flying ointment,” as well as the history of psychedelic folk magic.

7. The Art of Weed Butter: A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Cannabutter Master

This informative cookbook includes step-by-step instructions to master the art of infusing cooking oils with THC goodness.

8. The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness

Cannabis enthusiasts can use this guide to view the plant through a social justice lens, and learn how to become better advocates in the process.

9. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks

Explore the flowers, fruits, fungi, herbs, and trees that humans have used throughout history to conjure up botanical beverages.

10. Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion: An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Understanding Magic Mushrooms – From Tips and Trips to Microdosing and Psychedelic Therapy

This comprehensive guide demystifies magic mushrooms by separating fact from fiction, and helps you learn about the transformative powers of psilocybin during a psychedelic trip.

Now I want to hear from you – What’s your cure for the summertime blues? Will you be adding any of these botanical books to your reading list? Let me know in the comments below!