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21) Hallucinogens
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
This book examines the history of the use of hallucinogenic, or psychodelic, drugs, their physical and social effects, and the dangers of taking these drugs.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer―the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace―including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. Whena small vial arrives in her mailbox from "Lewis Carroll," Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe; she has tried nearly every medication possible; her husband...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"TRIPS has the latest findings in language anyone can understand, with help from some of the underground artists who grew up with psychedelics, regulators who control the drugs, federal scientists who approve and fund research, and scientists who've spent careers studying them. TRIPS is real neuroscience for a general audience, enthusiastically presented with color illustrations and bleeding-edge cultural analogies to show how the still-mysterious...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a medical revolution--and the potential it may hold to help us thrive. Rachel Nuwer separates fact from fantasy, hope from hype, in the drug's contested history and still-evolving future. Evidence from scientific trials suggests MDMA, properly administered, can be startlingly effective at relieving the effects of trauma. Results from other studies point...
31) The psychedelic handbook: a practical guide to psilocybin, LSD, ketamine, MDMA, and DMT/ayahuasca
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Everything you need to know about popular psychedelic drugs. Entering the world of psychedelic drugs can be challenging, and many aren't sure where to start. As research continues to expand and legalization looms on the horizon for psychedelics like psilocybin, you may need a guide to navigate what psychedelics are, how they work, and their potential benefits and risks. The Psychedelic Handbook is a complete manual that is accessible to anyone with...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the listener through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge. In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The Shadow's Child is a living mindship that was discharged from military transport service after an injury and now makes a living brewing mind-altering teas to help space travelers. When abrasive and eccentric scholar Long Chau requests a corpse from space for scientific study, the ship accepts the odd assignment. When the body she brings back turns out to have been murdered, Long Chau feels compelled to investigate, dragging The Shadow Child with...
36) LSD
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
This book looks at the history of the hallucinogenic drug LSD and its societal and physical effects.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and the answer to a 2,000 year old mystery that could shake the Church to its foundations. The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity-exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the tradition of unsolved historical mysteries like David Grann's...
39) The red arrow
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"When a once promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous particle physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt after failing to deliver a novel, he's grown distant from his wife--a successful A.I. researcher--and is haunted by an overwhelming dread he describes as "The Mist." Desperate for relief, he undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and emerges to find his world transformed: joy suffuses every...
40) Flowering Plants
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Description
Includes information on plants used as drugs: Hallucinogens and their use; nutmeg; cannabis; cactus; barbados cherry; morning glory; bean family; potato family; opium and cocaine; other hallucinogens plants.
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