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Recreational Herbs

The recreational section explores the usage of plants for their sedative, stimulant, narcotic and hallucinogenic properties. Often used for entertaining, examples include cannabis, coffee, mushrooms, poppies and tobacco. The name hemp, from the Old English, hanf, belongs to the Cannabis sativa species. One of the most popular illegal drugs in use today, cannabis is one of mankind’s oldest cultivated crops.

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Life and manners; from the autobiography of an English opium-eater. Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.

STROZIER, Special Collections Rare PR4530 .E51 1851

Barton, Benjamin Herbert, fl. 1835 and Castle, Thomas, 1804?-1840? The British flora medica : a history of the medicinal plants of Great Britain. London : Chatto and Windus, 1877.

STROZIER, Special Collections Rare QK99 .B28 1877

Burnett, M. A. Plantae utiliores : or, Illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine. London : Whittaker & Co., 1842-1850.

STROZIER, Special Collections Vault SB107 .B86 1842 4 v. in 3

Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837. A New family herbal : or, Popular account of the natures and properties of the various plants used in medicine, diet and the arts. The plants drawn from nature by Henderson ; and engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. London : R. Phillips, 1810.

STROZIER, Special Collections Rare QK99.A1 T5