In the final days following the pandemic lockdown, as Justin Smith-Royo struggled with personal loss and existential skepticism, he found himself standing in a cannabis shop in California, contemplating a question that his fellow philosophers often dismissed as too simple:
How did you get here? That moment marked a turning point for him - it was the beginning of a journey that Smith-Royo would take to experience his mind and the world around him in a new and clear way.' Drugs' blends autobiography, intellectual history, and philosophical research to explore the transformative effect of hallucinogenic substances on human consciousness and thought. Drawing on his personal experiences as an “eloquent guinea pig,” Smith-Royo argues that hallucinogenic material turns our notions about the nature of reality upside down, thereby forcing us to reconsider the foundations of Western philosophy itself.About Drugs is a thought-provoking, profound, and highly personal book that points to a radically new way of thinking about the world and our ability to understand it.
