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This is Your Mind on Plants
How coffee took over the world, opium is gutting America, and mescaline will crack open the collective human mind
Today’s book has me rethinking everything I ever thought I knew about coffee, opium, and mescaline.
Okay, so to be fair, maybe I never really knew too much about any of those things in the first place.
Except for the fact that opium is basically ravaging America right now, Aldous Huxley took a bunch of mescaline and wrote some great books about it, and, well…I just f***ing love coffee.
Making coffee is pretty much the first thing I do every day (the second is to pick up a book), but I never really gave much thought to where it came from, how it became so popular, and the wild evolutionary process by which coffee beans basically used human beings to take over the world.
Seriously! Coffee took over the world, entirely because human beings couldn’t live without it, so we brought it from the few places in the world it was grown, and transported it to the ends of the earth.
Coffee took over the world using humans as their “hosts” and today’s book, This is Your Mind on Plants, tells that fascinating story, as well as the tragic story of opium, and the developing story of mescaline and other psychedelics.
