White Rabbit: A Psychedelic Reader

"The broad spectrum of writing included in White Rabbit neither condones nor condemns drug use, but instead examines the vast cache of world literature about drugs—as written by drug users, about drug users, and about the drugs themselves. This comprehensive anthology allows the adventurous reader to experience the full range of pharmacopoeia, form opium and moonshine to yage and ecstasy, as captured by some of the world's most imaginative writers of fiction and nonfiction. Jim Hogshire waxes poetic on the reptilian effects of DM cough syrup. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explains, via his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, the benefits of "a seven-per-cent solution" of cocaine. The Fang people of northwestern Africa relate the religious significance of ingesting the eboka bush. And Lewis Carroll sends little Alice down the rabbit hole in the classic story from which this anthology gets its title. Whether ecstatic or hungover, addicted or recovering, the writers in White Rabbit run the gamut of drug experience. Their often incredible and always eloquent stories provide a dizzying, stream-of-consciousness read, making White Rabbit a mind-opener in its own right."—book jacket.