A
fascinating and informative history of humankind's checkered
and often ambrivalent relationship with psychoactive plants
and drugs. From the role of the poppy in ancient Mesopotamia
and the ergot-based mystery cult of Eleusis, through the
opium wars in China and the persecution of medieval herbalist
witches, up to the 'psychedelic rebellion' of the sixties
and the insanities of the current 'war on drugs'.
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