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rongrong's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.0
Read by author. Lots of story-telling and curiosity and more thoughts about the law than I expected. Enjoyable and sometimes hilarious. Why not more stars? The sad run in with the man arrested and ruined? Privilege? Not sure.
sour_tangent's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
ekellogg's review against another edition
3.0
I had higher hopes for this book. I feel like the book let itself down. The end (to me) seemed anticlimactic, and an abandonment of the attempt at a scientific approach to our relationship with the chemicals in plants which act upon us in various ways.
An easy enough read, and there is some interesting information contained therein.
BUT - reader beware that the last third of this book contains a white man’s foray into plants which are heavily entrenched in indigenous cultures and I don’t know if he sufficiently understood his outsider status, and I think dipped well within the realms of cultural appropriation. He seems aware that he is potentially borrowing the trappings of another culture but I don’t think he really respected it enough. It kind of felt like “I know this is kind of cultural appropriation but I really WANT to try this drug so it’s ok if I try it.”
An easy enough read, and there is some interesting information contained therein.
BUT - reader beware that the last third of this book contains a white man’s foray into plants which are heavily entrenched in indigenous cultures and I don’t know if he sufficiently understood his outsider status, and I think dipped well within the realms of cultural appropriation. He seems aware that he is potentially borrowing the trappings of another culture but I don’t think he really respected it enough. It kind of felt like “I know this is kind of cultural appropriation but I really WANT to try this drug so it’s ok if I try it.”
hanbanan123's review against another edition
1.0
I didn’t realize this was gonna be a book about this man journaling his experience with drugs.
Like cool you want to grow opium I guess? Cool you went to a mescaline ceremony? I thought I was gonna learn about the chemical interactions and actual impact on the brain and why these psychedelics do what they do.
Like cool you want to grow opium I guess? Cool you went to a mescaline ceremony? I thought I was gonna learn about the chemical interactions and actual impact on the brain and why these psychedelics do what they do.
daniegri's review against another edition
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
3.0