This is your mind on plants
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New York [New York] : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
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Book
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274 pages ; 25 cm
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Zephyrhills Public Library - BOOK - Adult
581.6 POLLAN
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Published
New York [New York] : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257) and index.
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"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, 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 ... 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? ... 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, and the equally powerful taboos with which we surround them ... A unique blend of history, science, memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively--as a drug, whether licit or illicit ... Based in part on an essay written more than 25 years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world"--

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Pollan, M. (2021). This is your mind on plants . Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pollan, Michael. 2021. This Is Your Mind On Plants. Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pollan, Michael. This Is Your Mind On Plants Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Pollan, Michael. This Is Your Mind On Plants Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.

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