Turn on and tune in: psychedelics, narcotics and euphoriants

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Simon Cotton reviews this up-to-date guide to the spectrum of psychoactive drugs

Turn on and tune in: psychedelics, narcotics and euphoriants

John Mann

Cambridge: RSC 2009 | Pp163 | £24.95 | ISBN 978 1 84 755909 8 

Reviewed by Simon Cotton

For the past 50 years, drugs have scarcely ever been out of the news. Quality books already exist on individual drugs or families of drugs. Additionally, cocaine and its links with criminal fraternities have led to several works, like Dominic Streatfeild's Cocaine, Robert Sabbag's Snowblind and Mark Bowden's Killing Pablo

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