Hardly any drug is perceived as a psychoactive substance as little as coffee.

Yet the hot beverage made from the bean of the coffee bush is a psychostimulant par excellence - and can generate interesting synergies in interaction with numerous other psychoactives. The cultural history of coffee, apart from its pleasurable and intoxicating aspects, includes just as many confusions and aberrations as the history of other drugs. When man copied the enjoyment of coffee fruits from animals, the worldwide triumph of coffee and other caffeinated drugs began. But few people know that coffee was once branded a ''devilish poison'' and fell victim to early drug prohibition in many a region. The book tells about this as well as about the botany, culture and use of this plant drug and the influence of coffee on art, culture and science.

Nachtschatten Publishers

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