“这是一次引人入胜、令人大开眼界、改变心灵的旅行”——《新政治家》

“令人着迷。波伦是完美的向导……好奇、谨慎、开放的”——《卫报》

来自国际畅销书《如何改变你的思想》的作者，突破性地探索了我们与天然药物的关系。

人类依赖植物，后者是食物、药物，它也有令人相当好奇的一面，那就是有些植物可以改变我们的意识状态，刺激人们的神经、让人变得冷静或是完全进入另一时空。作者在本书中探索了鸦片、咖啡因和致幻剂对我们头脑的影响，记录了和它们共存共生的文化是如何发展和成长的，植物对人有无法抵抗的吸引，但在许多文化中也有各种各样的禁忌。

本书结合了历史、科学、回忆录和报道文学，让读者直面通常不愿意面对的想法，也证明了今天广为流传的争议其实都极为表面。毕竟，当我们食用它们、让它们改变我们的身心时，其实也是我们和自然非常深刻的交流。这本开创性的、独特的书为我们提供了一面镜子，反映了我们人类的基本需求和抱负、我们的思想运作以及我们与自然世界的纠缠。

It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman

'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The Guardian

From the international bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind comes a ground-breaking exploration of our relationship with natural drugs

Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos.

In a unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively. In doing so, he proves that there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. This ground-breaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.