In particular, the Notes section of the book is written by Jonathan Ott and alone makes this book a valuable purchase, particularly as the prices of other works of Mr. Ott’s. How is the back cover. . Plant Intoxicants is a ground-breaking study of psychoactive plants and their role in society. First pusblished in Nuremberg in 1855, it is necessary to examine one of the first books on the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of the world’s major stimulants and Inebriants. Based on his own travel experiences as well as the writings of his predeccessors, Baron Ernst von Bibra (1806-1878) devotes an entire chapter by each of seventeen plants, ranging from such mild stimulants as coffee and tea, tobacco and hashish, to powerful drugs and hallucinogens such as opium and fly agaric mushrooms Written. in a lively style, Plant Intoxicants paints a fascinating panorama of the worldwide use of psychoactive plants in the nineteenth century. Von Bibra brings about a sharp mind, a firm sense of humor and a refreshing openness to its unusual, or the time. While acknowledgeing open and describes in vivid detail the corruption of the opium den, he holds the view that drugs, when used in moderation they are “gifts from the gods to alleviate the people’s misery and reconcile men with one another given.” His findings, unhampered by the restrictive morality of his time, are a testemant enjoyed the intellectual freedom by wealthy private researchers in the nineteenth century. Bibra supplement and improvement of work is a complete annotation of its current counterpart, Jonathan Ott, an ethnobotanist and author Pharmacotheon along with many other great books. A foreword by Martin Hare eggs, the world’s leading authority on von Bibra’s life and work, provides a biographical sketch and places on the plant Intoxicants vangaure popular science writing about the role of plants in human culture. Rating: 5.5