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Drugs

A list of books about drugs mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
by Terence McKenna
The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History
by Terence McKenna
True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise
by Terence McKenna
Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs – 1967
by Daniel H. Efron
Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad
by James Oroc
DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
by Rick Strassman
DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible
by Rick Strassman
The Psilocybin Solution: The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Meaning
by Simon G. Powell
Magic Mushroom Explorer: Psilocybin and the Awakening Earth
by Simon G. Powell
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth
by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
by Daniel Pinchbeck
The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life With Terence McKenna
by Dennis McKenna
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
by Jeremy Narby
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
by Marc Lewis
The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy
by Jack Herer
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity
by J.R. Irvin
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
by Don Lattin
Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances
by Ronald K. Siegel
Jesse Ventura’s Marijuana Manifesto
by Jesse Ventura
Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years
by E.L. Abel
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
by Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin
Tihkal: A Continuation
by Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin
Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life
by Patrick Lundborg
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann & Christian Ratsch
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
by Andy Letcher
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
by Graham Hancock
The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching
by Terence McKenna & Dennis McKenna
Psilocybe Mushrooms and Their Allies
by Paul Stamets
The Rose Of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments
by William Leonard Pickard
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
by Johann Hari
The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem
by Andrew T. Weil, M.D.

health
The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Consciousness
by Andrew T. Weil, M.D.

health
From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs
by Andrew Weil

health
The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
by Matt Taibbi

business
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
LSD Psychotherapy (The Healing Potential Potential of Psychedelic Medicine)
by Stanislav Grof

psychology
Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (Volumes 1 & 2): 50 Years of Research
edited by Dennis McKenna, Sir Ghillean T. Prance, Wade Davis & Benjamin De Leonen
Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine
edited by Luis Eduardo Luna & Professor Steven F. White
Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy
by Don Lattin
Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide: A Handbook for Psilocybin Enthusiasts
by O. T. Oss & O. N. Oeric
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
by Alex Berenson
Friendly Fire: Why Vets Are Ditching Pills and Lighting Up to Treat PTSD
by Dr. Mike Hart & Jeremy Kossen

mental health
Cannabis for PTG: How to Transform Post-Traumatic Stress into Post-Traumatic Growth
by Dr. Mike Hart

(release date TBD)
mental health
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide
by Paul Stamets
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
by Norman Ohler
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality
by R. Gordon Wasson
The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience
by Benny Shanon
The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity
by J.R. Irvin with Jack Herer

religion
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
by Dr. Carl L. Hart
Bufo alvarius: The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert
by Albert Most/Ken Nelson
Marihuana Reconsidered (essay by Carl Sagan)
by Lester Grinspoon
This Is Your Mind on Plants
by Michael Pollan
Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
by Wolfgang Schivelbusch & David Jacobson
The Psychedelic Handbook: A Practical Guide to Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA, and Ayahuasca
by Rick Strassman, MD
Autism on Acid: How LSD Helped Me Bridge The ASD-Neurotypical Divide
by Aaron Paul Orsini
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
by Norman Ohler
Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research
by Stanislav Grof
Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World’s Strangest Drug
by Andrew R. Gallimore