The pieces in Pot Stories for the Soul are funny, whimsical, bizarre, poignant, informational, shocking, and, yeah, soulful. They are about love, hate, escape, reality, the paranormal, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Michelle Phillips, Hunter Thompson, Abbie Hoffman, Wavy Gravy and peanut butter. Ultimately, these stories reveal the wide, weird, and wonderful subculture of stoners, where the reefers are mad, the joints are fat, and the buzz lasts for six-and-a-half days. Mainstream America has had an uneasy relationship with marijuana. Once a legal substance, the 1930s saw a massive campaign against.;Foreword by Harlan Ellison: T'ANKS BUT NO T'OKES; Introduction: PAUL KRASSNER; One Toke over the Century: Krassner's New Stuff; Remembering Scott Kelman; Who Killed Peter McWilliams?; Checkmating with Pawns; The Ballad of Tommy Chong; Bong Hits 4 Jesus; The Great Hippie Debate; Lenny's Last Laugh; A Letter to Barack Obama; Newt's Noxious Nuttiness; The Kesey Papers; The Bust at Kesey's Place: LEE QUARNSTROM; Halloween 1970: LENNY LIPTON; Mouse Power: PAUL KRASSNER; Goofy Macho: KEN KESEY; Celebrities; I Was Allen Ginsberg's Accountant; Kidnapping Jerry Rubin: LESLIE MEYERS.