I've grown to love this issue with its literary and artistic feel, from the cover to the frontispiece contents page with it's border hand-drawn in my cottage by a local art student, and my Decades of Dope, an historical perspective editorial, to Brian Barritt's Hotel California, sci-fi style with John Beaumont's spaced out illustrations; Anslinger's Assassin of Youth! Marijuana preview by me of Reefer Madness by Larry Sloman, the history of marijuana in America with illustration by Johnny Reno, the art director; Hail Albion on the Stonehenge Festival by the Rev. Richard Mayes (Ric the Vic); Alien to Alien by Patti Smith, beat poet and musician; The Psychedelic Pogrom by Heathcote Williams, o-level acid, a twice told tale, but “lest we forget”; and prison letters, campaign ads, Smokey Bears comix strip by Bryan Talbot, and more.

The centre-piece feature of the issue must be the preview by Don Irving of the greatest cannabis photographer in the world,  the Canadian Laurence Cherniak's The Great Books of Hashish,, Volume 1: Book 1.