Drugs are fun but also… science! That’s how you could sum up this book.

This is a well written book about the emerging research around the practical, and recreational, uses of psychedelics. There are some slow parts but, never before has someone so successfully advocated for a drug to be fun, dangerous, and therapeutic since Prohibition. There are a number of pleasant surprises including stories of highly unlikely characters who shape the CIA’s experiments with psychedelics, countless people who overcame mental health struggles, as well as routine appearances by Aldous Huxley.

Psychedelics have taken a long strange trip (sorry, had to) to get to where they are today in the United States and this is a solid retelling of that story. You gotta respect Pollan for basically tricking his publisher into paying him to do drugs and hallucinate. When we polled the BBC after the book, almost everyone said they wanted to take psychedelics… just remember: set AND setting matter a lot when you’re riding the rainbow highway to fight your demons.

Pop some Entheogens, tune in, drop out, and read this book.

READ THIS BOOK