Trips

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ISBN: 9781888363340

Ellen R Crumb, Robert R Crumb, Cheryl Pellerin , Ellen L. Seefelt

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English

Seven Stories Press,U.S.
01 August 2011

Popular culture; Pharmacology

Trips shows, using color illustrations, the latest research, and bleeding-edge cultural analogies, how the still-mysterious hallucinogens may work in the still-mysterious brain. Written in language a general audience can understand, the book's tone is light and irreverent, yet at the same time deals with the drug culture in a serious way.

Trips offers readers a rare look at the social, cultural, historical, and scientific phenomenon of psychedelics-through the eyes of artists who've grown up with them, regulators who control them, federal scientists who approve and fund their research, and scientists who've spent careers studying them-and in the process fills a growing need for truthful information about drugs. For a generation, people have been worried about false horrors attributed to LSD-chromosome damage (LSD doesn't; coffee and aspirin do), suicide, madness, and flashbacks (no such thing). There are, however, real problems associated with hallucinogens, which until now have been unknown, ignored, or untranslated from the scientific literature. Trips separates the facts from the falsehoods and provides, through the combination of Pellerin's text and the artwork of legendary American artist Robert Crumb, a practical, entertaining, and yet rock-solid guide.

By: Ellen R Crumb, Robert R Crumb, Cheryl Pellerin, Ellen L. Seefelt
Illustrated by: Ellen L. Seefelt
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 177mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9781888363340
ISBN 10: 1888363347
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CHERYL PELLERIN is an independent science writer for broadcast and print. Her work appears regularly on the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. R. CRUMB is an underground cartoonist and an American national treasure. He is the author of Robert Crumb’s Genesis, a fully illustrated edition of the first book of the Bible, and many legendary underground comics besides.

Reviews for Trips

“Laced with humor and wit but never short on scientific facts, Cheryl Pellerin's Trips is a much-needed antidote to the inane discourse of the drug war.” –Martin A. Lee, co-author with Bruce Schlain of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion “A fine source of responsible information about how the verboten and vilified but perennially popular hallucinogenic drugs go about their nefarious business. . . . [Pellerin's] book is fresh, reasonable, and very engaging.” –Booklist