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The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends

The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 0452289912
ISBN-13 : 9780452289918
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Book Synopsis The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends by : Ingo Niermann

Download or read book The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends written by Ingo Niermann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, this informational book about drugs dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip. 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, facts, 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


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