This Is Your Mind on Plants - Michael Pollan
Category: Science
Narrator: Michael Pollan
Tags: Science, Bestsellers, Misc. Non-fiction, Adults
This Is Your Mind on Plants, an instant New York Times best seller by Michael Pollan., 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 number-one New York Times best-selling 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 caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable., So, then
