This Is Your Mind on Plants Pollan Michael
This Is Your Mind on Plants Pollan Michael From number one New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful…
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This Is Your Mind on Plants Pollan Michael
From number one New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants--and the equally powerful taboosOf all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds.
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 So, then, what is a "drug"?