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Looks Good Enough To Smoke: Marijuana Gets Its Glamour Moment

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 05/21/2015 - 08:00

When Erik Christiansen started smoking pot, he became fascinated by the look of different marijuana strains. But the photographs of marijuana he saw didn't capture the variety.

So he went to the hardware store and picked up two lights and a cardboard box. "I didn't even have a macro lens — I was shooting through a magnifying glass," he says.

Christiansen has created high-resolution 360-degree views of some strains of marijuana, including this one of Platinum Bubba.

The California-based photographer tinkered with his macro technique until he had created a consistent way to capture highly detailed images of marijuana.

Then Dan Michaels, a cannabis aficionado and strategist for the growing legal pot industry, contacted Christiansen about collaborating on a field guide. The result is Green: A Field Guide to Marijuana (Chronicle Books, $30). The high-end coffee table book documents over 170 strains of cannabis, explaining their medicinal and recreational attributes....

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http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/05/20/408023253/looks-good-enough-to-smoke-marijuana-gets-its-glamour-moment

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