- Hallucinogenic drugs, Mental health, Therapeutic use, Biography
When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book.
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Spare, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Pollan
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Corporation, Penguin Press, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780141985138
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Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He writes about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment.
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