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Title:
This is your mind on plants
Summary:
"Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: people around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. We don't usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So then what is a "drug?" And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime?"-- Publisher.
Contents:
Introduction -- Opium. Prologue ; :Opium, made easy" ; Epilogue -- Caffeine -- Mescaline. The door in the wall ; The orphan psychedelic ; In which we meet the cacti ; The birth of a new religion ; Peeking inside the tepee ; An interlude: on mescaline ; Learning from San Pedro ; Drunk at the wheel ; Plan C.
Physical Description:
274 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher:
Penguin Press,
Publication Date:
2021
ISBN:
9780593296905
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Call Number:
591.6 POLLAN
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