by The Editors
From the publishers of Cocaine Papers by Sigmund Freud comes "the accurate dope on getting high." Who better to supply users with the latest on market quotations, aphrodisiacs and household highs (forget nutmeg and mace; they induce nausea, diarrhea and headache) but High Times, a sort of Consumers' Guide for the head set. Dabs of history and anthropology and recitation of the major studies (as on spiders in the illustrations at right) pass for scholarship. More usable are color plates of pills with abuse potential and samples of marijuana from Acapulco Gold to Maui Wowee. Also covered, sometimes repetitiously, are cocaine, opiates, mushrooms, coffees, alcohol and cigarettes. Sifting information and misinformation on the drug culture is a major task, however; while this effort is energetic, the definitive work remains a pipe dream. (Stonehill, $9.95)
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