It's
NATURAL to get high!!! The desire for intoxication is actually a fourth
drive, as unstoppable as hunger, thirst, and sex.
It's
NATURAL to get high!!! The desire for intoxication is actually a fourth
drive, as unstoppable as hunger, thirst, and sex.
Ronald Siegel's Intoxication takes us on an amazing odyssey around the globe, in which the drug-using jungle beasts, savanna game, and household pets reveal the rules and reasons for this ancient habit. And in the lab, animals are trained to "describe" what they see while under the influence: it is the same artificial paradise reported by primitives and modern drug users.
The pursuit of drugs - whether caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, opium, marijuana, or cocaine - is universal and inescapable. It is to be found across time and species, and in the private lives of presidents and citizens alike. The struggle between this natural drive and societal law has become a deadly war that can never be won. But there is an answer: the lessons gleaned from animals show that we can make peace with the fourth drive, understand that drugs are a kind of medication needed to change how we feel, and use the technology and education that is our human distinction to design safe intoxicants.
Intoxication is sure to be one of the most controversial drug books ever printed!!! Highly recommended.
