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The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

“Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review

From #1 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 taboos.

Of 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. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of

This Is Your Mind on Plants

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    A Paperback / softback by Michael Pollan

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      Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
      Published 19 July 2022
      ISBN-13 9780593296929
      978-0593296929
      ISBN-10 0593296923
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      Health & Wellbeing Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization Science & Nature Ecological science, the Biosphere

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

      “Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review

      From #1 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 taboos.

      Of 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. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of

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