THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS

Of all the things humans rely on plants forsustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fibersurely the most curious is our us e of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Ta ke coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a dru g, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a drug? And why, for example, is making tea...[Read more]