The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends

Wacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, this informational book about drugs dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip.<BR><BR> 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:<BR><BR> • The test results of animals on LSD—cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns<BR> • Drugs found in nature, from magic mushrooms to St. John’s wort to beaver secretions<BR> • Celebrities who overdosed at age 27—Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, and Jean Michel-Basquiat<BR> • Imaginary drugs in literature and film, from spice the mélange in Dune to Moloko plus in A Clockwork Orange<BR> • Nicknames for a joint—from doobie to giggly stick to Mr. Boom Bizzle<BR> • The global percentages of adults who have used cannabis—.004 percent in Singapore and 12.6 percent in the United States<BR> • The uses of opium in ancient Rome—from treatments for insomnia and epilepsy to colic and deafness<BR> • The most glamorous rehab clinics and their celebrity alumni<BR> • Mini-biographies of the biggest drug kingpins around the world