麥可．波倫《植物靈藥: 鴉片、咖啡因、麥司卡林, 如何成為我們的心靈渴望? 又為何成為毒品? 對人類文化帶來什麼影響?》 【紐時暢榜書＆郵報焦點好書】 飲食文化作家波倫深入探究鴉片、咖啡因和三甲氧苯乙胺等３種影響心智的植物藥，徹底挑戰我們對藥物的看法，並探索致幻植物對人類的強大吸引力與其同樣強大的禁忌。 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos. Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a “drug”? And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime?