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The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Alan W. Watts and Daniel Pinchbeck
A classic account of the psychedelic experience The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts's exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate "when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflec...
Opium for the Masses: Harvesting Nature's Best Pain Medication
Jim Hogshire
"Contrary to general belief, there is no federal law against growing P. somniferum."— Martha Stewart Living "Regarded as 'God's own medicine,' preparations of opium were as common in the Victorian medicine cabinet as aspirin is in ours. As late as 1...