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A Brief History of Drugs: From the Stone Age to the Stoned Age
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by Antonio Escohotado and Ken Symington
Sales Rank: 405421
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List Price: $12.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 176 pages
Published by: Park Street PressEdition: 1st Edition May 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0892818263
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0892818266
Book Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 8.2 ounces
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., author of The Unfolding Self and Green Psychology
A fascinating and informative history of humankind's checkered and often ambivalent relationship with psychoactive plants and drugs. From the role of the opium 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,' Eschohotado covers an enormous subject with scholarly acumen and brings the light of reason to bear on topics often shrouded in bigotry, ignorance, and cupidity. Highly recommended!
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"A fascinating and informative history of humankind's checkered and often ambivalent relationship with psychoactive plants and drugs. From the role of the opium 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,' Eschohotado covers an enormous subject with scholarly acumen and brings the light of reason to bear on topics often shrouded in bigotry, ignorance, and cupidity. Highly recommended!"
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Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., author of The Unfolding Self and Green Psychology )
"This book looks at natural substances used by different cultures to alter the mind. Makes for interesting, thought provoking reading."
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American Herb Association, Vol 16:4 )
Reader Reviews
This wonderful new volume is a very readable and informative condensation of and expansion on Escohotado own previous publication, the lengthy three-volume 'Historia General de las Drogas'. Here, in a text finely balanced with history and science, he traces humanity's affair with drugs and intoxicants beginning with the third millenium B.C., and leading up to the modern hi-tech psycheledics. He traces some of the most popular drugs like caffeine and hemp back to their surprisingly early origins. Taking into account the involvement of drugs in early religious festivities, he offers an analysis how they've made an easy move from there to a more secular, pleasure-seeking culture, accompanied by the parallel villification of drugs by religion, the institution that played a leading role in their introduction to society. This concise book will make readers aware of the extent of the spread of drugs through history, and of the hopelessness of all attempts to make them disappear from future history as well.
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