The release date for the English version of 'This Is Your Mind on Plants' by
Michael Pollan is Jul 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Michael Pollan delves deeply into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—in This Is Your Mind on Plants, bringing to light the basic weirdness and arbitrariness of our conceptions of them. Pollan addresses the strong human affinity to psychoactive substances by investigating and engaging with the societies that have developed around these drugs while ingesting (or, in the case of coffee, attempting not to use) them. Why do we put forth so much effort to find these changes in awareness, and then surround that common desire with rules, traditions, and sensitive emotions?