Another good book on drug and culture history is Sadie Plants' "Writing on Drugs" (1999). It's full of great short clips of history and analysis drug-fueled/-i

Another good book on drug and culture history is Sadie Plants' "Writing on Drugs" (1999). It's full of great short clips of history and analysis drug-fueled/-inspired literary efforts from Coleridge and Baudelaire to Burroughs & PK Dick. P.S. Richard Evans Schultes is a very interesting figure in the field of ethnobotanical psychedelic pharmacology, and he was as interested in the plants themselves (peyote, mushrooms, ayahuasca and others) as in the cultural traditions that surrounded them (One River by Wade Davis is a good partial biography).