Magic Medicine: A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants Substances

explores the and provides a contemporary update about their . Each chapter dives into the rich history of a single plant or compound and explores its therapeutic and spiritual uses in cultures near and far. allow glimmers of psychedelic light throughout. Learn all about: The history of psychedelic plants and substances is . Did US Army Intelligence really use LSD as an enhanced military interrogation technique? How is DiPT able to make a familiar tune sound utterly foreign? Can MDMA (Ecstasy) help people overcome traumatic experiences?   Many psychedelic plants and substances have a long history of being incorporated into various healing traditions—such as cannabis and opium in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Science is beginning to research what traditional cultures have told us for years: psychedelics have . Anyone who has ever wondered about psychedelics—from complete neophytes to veteran trippers, seekers and sages to skeptics and scientists, therapists and patients to green thumbs and armchair anthropologists—will find something in this book.