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Drug literature - what is a must read?

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Hi,

Question speaks for itself. I read the following:

Almost everything by William s Burroughs (Junkie, nova express, naked lunch) - all really entertaining with his cut up technique.
Mr. Nice - the autobiography of Howard marks, one of the biggest hash dealers of the world.
Trainspotting - a great book in its original language, albeit a bit hard to to understand for foreigners since it’s full of Scottish accent.
Sucht Profit sucht by Günther amendt, more of a nonfiction kinda book, but really good why things are how they are. He is well known in Germany for his books about sexual education from the 68th.
On the road by jack Kerouac - not directly related to drugs but worth mentioning, though nothing special.

I‘m going to read brave new world by Huxley soon and maybe some phillip k. Dick Books After rewatching a Scanner darkly.

Anything to add?

Greets
 
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izo said:
Hi,

Question speaks for itself. I read the following:

Almost everything by William s Burroughs (Junkie, nova express, naked lunch) - all really entertaining with his cut up technique.
Mr. Nice - the autobiography of Howard marks, one of the biggest hash dealers of the world.
Trainspotting - a great book in its original language, albeit a bit hard to to understand for foreigners since it’s full of Scottish accent.
Sucht Profit sucht by Günther amendt, more of a nonfiction kinda book, but really good why things are how they are. He is well known in Germany for his books about sexual education from the 68th.
On the road by jack Kerouac - not directly related to drugs but worth mentioning, though nothing special.

I‘m going to read brave new world by Huxley soon and maybe some phillip k. Dick Books After rewatching a Scanner darkly.

Anything to add?

Greets
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Brave New World is excellent. I read it for fun like 20 years ago and it was assigned reading in a class on drugs I took in grad school 10 years after that. It's would be considered more of an indictment on legal drugs like anti-depressants and other psychotropic meds. But still excellent.

If you're into mushrooms and psychedelics, I recommend Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna. It also has several chapters that give rundowns of the histories of most all other legal and illegal drugs as well.
 
Addict by Stephen Smith , unbelievable personal account of addiction to amphetamines in the 60's.

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A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Altered States by Paddy Cheyefski is also a really good book that is often overlooked. It's about a psychedelic mushroom that turns people into some kind of a sasquatch (ape monster).
 

Best drug books

What are your favorite books about a novel or story of drug use, trafficking etc.? Not really pikal type books which are more a science instruction guide...and not psychedelic McKenna stuff either. More hard drugs is what I'm asking. I've read Generation oxy The one about Ross Ulbrict...
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I started a similar thread a few weeks ago. A few answers in there.
 
All the Irvine Welsh books (Trainspotting etc)

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1. Magic Medicine A trip through the intoxicating history and modern-day use of psychedelic plants by Cody Johnson

2. HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS

by RICHARD EVANS SHULTES

Illustrated by ELMER W. SMITH

GOLDEN PRESS - NEW YORK 1976

3. The R.CrumbHandbook a brand

new take on the life, trials and ideas of one

ofthe most influential cartoonists ofthe

last 40 years. Wry, self-deprecating, and

candid, this is an exceptionally revealing

and unexpectedly moving visual biography.

Crumb is thoughtful and enlightening, with

insights into 20th century popular culture

that are hilarious, challenging, and acidly

satirical. He casts an unblinking eye onto

the underbelly ofmodem life, an urban

nightmare of human weakness, lust, terror,

and cmelty, all seen though the comic lens

ofhis satire. Simultaneously, he weaves in

the surreal narrative ofhis personal

evolution from his tormented childhood in

the 1 940s through to his coming ofage as

an artist in the psychedelic revolution of

the 1960s. With over 50 personal

photographs, and 300 images taken from

his sketchbooks and comic books, as well

as fine art from museums. The R.Crumb

Handbook tells it like it is!

4. THE GREAT BIG

NARCOTICS COOKBOOK

5. Peyote and Other Psychoactive Cacti. Ronin Publishing / Psychedelic Gardening
 
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