{"product_id":"this-is-your-mind-on-plants","title":"This is your Mind on Plants","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMichael Pollan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Radical Challenge To How We Think About Drugs, And An Exploration Into The Powerful Human Attraction To Psychoactive Plants—And The Equally Powerful Taboo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Is Your Mind on Plants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or, in the case of caffeine, trying\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings? In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively—as a drug, whether licit or illicit.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54189545029925,"sku":"yxq1792725431226","price":19.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/3713\/2581\/files\/this-is-your-mind-on-plants_1.jpg?v=1792725445","url":"https:\/\/new-job-confidence.shop\/products\/this-is-your-mind-on-plants","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}