Go the what to where, dude?

It's Just a Plant is a children's book, The Guardian reports, about cannabis.

Written and illustrated by Ricardo Cortes, whose lovely illustrations were recently seen in the book Go the F--- to Sleep, it was first published in 2005 and has been recently reissued.

It follows Jackie, a girl whose twitching nostrils lead her to her parents' bedroom one night, where they are smoking a joint. The following day her mother takes her on an educational journey - they meet a farmer, a doctor, a police officer - to learn more about marijuana.

What right-on parents - they cycle, they have cool art and psychedelic carpets, they get their vegetables for their vegetarian dinner directly from a farmer and are politically active.

Cortes is staunchly pro-legalisation - this summer, he printed and distributed pamphlets to try to convince people on jury duty to practise ''jury nullification'', returning a not-guilty verdict regardless of evidence, in all criminal drug cases in protest at the law.

Many politicians and columnists have criticised Cortes's look at cannabis, claiming he was encouraging children down an evil road of drug abuse. But perhaps it will have the opposite effect.

Anything so self-consciously liberal is usually more than a little cringeworthy. If there's one thing that might put children off drugs, it's reading about these groovy parents taking them.