The Devil and his Lettuce

Engelstalig handboek over de zin en onzin van cannabis. Een geestverruimende reis

waarin alle aspecten van een van ’s werelds oudste cultuurgewassen aan de orde komen

in een voor meerdere prijzen genomineerde uitgave.

The Devil’s Lettuce is a free-format handbook that takes you on a mind-expanding trip

through the life and times of cannabis. Allowing you to release yourself from misconceptions

and fake news about a widely misunderstood plant, medicine, textile fibre and religious

sacrament.

Cannabis is one of the world’s oldest cultivated crops. It has powered much modern

development, brought healing and recreation, and been used heavily as a religious and

spiritual aid.

The history of cannabis has, for the most part, been mellow and calm. In more modern

times that history has been troubled and agitated, when exploration, trade, war and politics

became involved. In the last 100 years, cannabis experienced its most turbulent times, with

its public perception, penalties for its production and applications, and fevered debates

about its legality around the world.

Today, as society is re-examining the overlooked medical uses of cannabis, and is coming

down from a highly-charged discourse about criminalisation, and embracing legalisation,

it is important that we properly understand what cannabis is, as well as its past, so we can

embrace a better, fairer and safer future for a cannabis-infused world.

The Devil and his Lettuce, was nominated for multiple awards; the Melkweg Award

announced annually in Dutch Design Week, recognises “a truly unique talent among DAE’s

Bachelor graduates” and a project that is “both highly original and full of potential,” as

well as the Kick That Ass award from Maarten Bass, presented “to a graduate of Design

Academy Eindhoven who has used the graduation year to make an authentic work -

regardless of advice or assignments - within self-set frameworks”.