num_pages: 288
description: In This Is Your Mind on Plants Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium caffeine and mescaline--and throws the fundamental strangeness and arbitrariness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or in the case of caffeine trying not to consume) them Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings?
language: English
title: This Is Your Mind on Plants
publisher: Penguin Press