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The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany
The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends A Very Trippy Miscellany Author:Adriano Sack, Ingo Niermann ?Curiouser and curioser? ?fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs. — Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, fa... more »cts, lists, statistics, and illustrations, including:
? The test results of animals on LSD?cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns
? Drugs found in nature, from magic mushrooms to St. John?s wort to beaver secretions
? Celebrities who overdosed at age 27?Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, and Jean Michel-Basquiat
? Imaginary drugs in literature and film, from spice the mélange in Dune to Moloko plus in A Clockwork Orange
? Nicknames for a joint?from doobie to giggly stick to Mr. Boom Bizzle
? The global percentages of adults who have used cannabis?.004 percent in Singapore and 12.6 percent in the United States
? The uses of opium in ancient Rome?from treatments for insomnia and epilepsy to colic and deafness
? The most glamorous rehab clinics and their celebrity alumni
? Mini-biographies of the biggest drug kingpins around the world
Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip.« less
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