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Title: TURN ON AND TUNE IN
PSYCHEDELICS, NARCOTICS AND EUPHORIANTS
By: John Mann, John Emsley, Philip Ball
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1847559093
ISBN 13: 9781847559098
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Publisher: ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY
Pub. date: 1 September, 2009
Pages: 163
Description: This book describes the importance of a range of psychoactive substances and highlights some well known people associated with them.
Synopsis: Timothy Leary's advice to "tune in, turn on and drop out" was a 1960s exhortation to experiment with LSD, but humans had been consuming ergot alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for at least a thousand years. Opium has been around even longer with its medicinal uses being known to the Ancient Sumerians as long ago as 3400 BC. This is the first book to cover all of the major psychoactive drugs (both natural and synthetic) in one volume, and the only one to cover all aspects of these drugs from their anthropological and sociological influences through to their chemistry and pharmacology. It covers a range of substances including LSD, opium, heroin, cocaine, cannabis, peyote, belladonna, mandrake, and absinthe. The book is highly readable and concentrates on the characters (e.g. authors, painters, pop stars, hippies, politicians and drug barons), both famous and infamous, who have ensured that psychoactive drugs hold an enduring fascination and interest for everyone. The basic chemistry and pharmacological activity covered together with a brief account of useful drugs that have emerged from a study of the psychoactive ones.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Royal Society of Chemistry
Returns: Returnable
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