Cornell University Press, February 1976. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation.....
Healing Arts Press, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This pioneering study of psychoactive plants and their role in society, initially published in 1855, is one of the first books to examine the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of the world's major stimulants and inebriants. It presents a......
Mercury House, February 1994. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The two parts of the title reflect the twin poles of the author's explorations of pharmacology and poetics. Modifying the pioneering works of Louis Lewin, Pendell classifies psychoactive plants into 5 types, and presents detailed discussions of each. While.....
Tully Ginseng Co., 1903. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 31 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
New World Library, September 2021. Hardcover. A trailblazing anthropologist and an indigenous Amazonian healer explore the convergence of science and shamanism "The dose makes the poison," says an old adage, reminding us that substances have the potential to heal or to harm, depending on their use. Although Western medicine treats.....
Bantam, 1993. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An exploration of humans' symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals presents information on prehistoric partnership societies, the roles of spices and spirits in the rise of dominator societies; and the politics of tobacco, tea, coffee, opium, and alcohol. Why, as a species, are.....
Heyday, June 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A "wildly entertaining" and "masterly" memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with.....
C. M. I. - Proposition 19 Campaign, 1972. Ephemera. Flier, 8.5 x 11 inches, printed in black on yellow, asking for support for the Proposition 19 campaign to repeal marijuana prohibtion - 'no criminal penalties for possessing, growing, harvesting, or processing of marijuana'. The initiative was defeated. First edition (first.....
Heyday, March 2019. Hardcover. In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people'". This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day.....
Hardcover.
Unicorn Book Shop, 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. Unicorn Pamphlet Number Two. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Park Street Press, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Compelling evidence that the early Jews and Christians used psychedelics as part of their religious rites. * Reveals the Bible's disguised references to this tradition and traces knowledge of this secret to the gnostics, masons, kabbalists, and the legends of the Holy Grail.....
Bloomsbury Press, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the.....
Mariner Books, January 2009. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell * Timothée Chalamet * Maura Tierney * and Amy Ryan "A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives.....
N/A, September 1997. Trade Paperback. This groundbreaking survey, written in 1860, is a radically open-minded look at the use of drugs across the world and throughout the ages. Early users of tobacco in Russia would have their noses cut off and repeat offenders their heads. Pope Innocent XII excommunicated any.....
Dutton, June 1989. Hardcover.
Inner Traditions, May 1999. Trade Paperback. A clear-eyed look at the instrumental role drugs have played in our cultural, social, and spiritual development. - First American publication of the surprising European bestseller. - Examines everything from the ancient use of ergot and datura to the modern phenomenon of designer drugs.....
Pantheon, July 2011. Hardcover. From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of "When Germs Travel, "the astonishing account of the years-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder.....
Mariner Books, April 2004. Trade Paperback. America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his.....