Food of the Gods
Food of the Gods
Terence McKenna · first published 1992 · ISBN 9780553078688
McKenna's argument that intoxicants shaped human culture from the beginning, and that the plants a society permits reveal what it fears. Speculative in places and openly so, but the historical sweep of the drug trade holds up.
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McKenna's claim that intoxicants shaped culture from the start, and that what a society bans tells you what it fears. Openly speculative in stretches, but the history of the drug trade underneath it is solid.