This Is Your Mind on Plants

"Instead of prescribing a list of potential policy actions, he ultimately leaves the details of how we might move forward with plant-derived compounds open to interpretation."

"That doesn't stop him doing it, with predictably tedious consequences, but he constructs a nice chapter all the same out of other bits of information."

"Instead, he wants readers to unlearn biases about drugs to make space for new cultural conversations about these psychoactive substances ..."

"Blending artful exposition of the evolution and neurochemistry of botanical drugs, erudite history, and (usually) precise and evocative prose, this is an insightful take on plants' beguiling sway over the human psyche."

"Our mind on Pollan revels in his exceptional narrative lucidity and command of complex and intriguing facts and concepts."

"I can't help but hope that such a powerful ally will wade as deeply into drug politics as he does drug neuroscience."

"While his previous books may have had their critics, This Is Your Mind on Plants, places Pollan, for this reviewer at least, among those science writers — James Gleick, Marcia Angell, Harold McGee, Jared Diamond and more — who demonstrate through the night of Trumpism, QAnon and the anti-vaxx movement that the flag of scientific literacy still waves in America."

"Pollan is very conscious about being a white man writing about Native American culture, which is not his own."