{"product_id":"9780452289918","title":"The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead Adriano Sack's posts on the Penguin Blog.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Curiouser and curiouser” —fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Ultimate Book of Useless Information\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends\u003c\/i\u003e is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, statistics, and illustrations, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• The test results of animals on LSD—cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns\u003cbr\u003e • Drugs found in nature, from magic mushrooms to St. John’s wort to beaver secretions\u003cbr\u003e • Celebrities who overdosed at age 27—Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, and Jean Michel-Basquiat\u003cbr\u003e • Imaginary drugs in literature and film, from spice the mélange in \u003ci\u003eDune\u003c\/i\u003e to Moloko plus in \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • Nicknames for a joint—from doobie to giggly stick to Mr. Boom Bizzle\u003cbr\u003e • The global percentages of adults who have used cannabis—.004 percent in Singapore and 12.6 percent in the United States\u003cbr\u003e • The uses of opium in ancient Rome—from treatments for insomnia and epilepsy to colic and deafness\u003cbr\u003e • The most glamorous rehab clinics and their celebrity alumni\u003cbr\u003e • Mini-biographies of the biggest drug kingpins around the world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWacky but well-researched, unbiased and shameless, \u003ci\u003eThe Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends\u003c\/i\u003e dares to take readers on a long, strange trivia trip.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013420794096,"sku":"9780452289918","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780452289918_p0.jpg?v=1763774833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780452289918","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}