Opium for the Masses: Harvesting Nature's Best Pain Medication

First published in the 1990s, Opium for the Masses by Jim Hogshire became one of the most talked—about counterculture books on the history, legality, and folklore surrounding the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Blending investigative reporting, cultural history, and archival research, Hogshire examines how a plant once common in American gardens and medicine cabinets became one...