David Rubenstein's Reviews > This Is Your Mind on Plants

This is a fun book about Pollan's investigations into the world of psychoactive plant-derived substances. He talks with people who grows or harvests different types of plants--opium, caffeine, and mescaline. Under what conditions are they legal to grow, legal to harvest, and legal to ingest? It is complicated. It seems to depend on where you live, and your purpose, and even your religion.

Pollan reaches back into fome of his old writings, that at the time may have gotten himself or others into legal trouble. He figures that in today's legal climate, his writings should not be troublesome.

This book is not very scientific. It is just a collections of stories about the legal tribulations of various people, to grow, harvest, and ingest these psychoactive substances.