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Politics · 21 min

This Is Your Mind on Plants

By Michael Pollan

This episode unpacks Michael Pollan's 'This Is Your Mind on Plants,' exploring humanity's intricate, often paradoxical, co-evolution with psychoactive plants. We examine how opium, caffeine, and mescaline have profoundly shaped our consciousness, culture, and legal systems.

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“This episode unpacks Michael Pollan's 'This Is Your Mind on Plants,' exploring humanity's intricate, often paradoxical, co-evolution with psychoactive plants. We examine how opium, caffeine, and mescaline have profoundly shaped our consciousness, culture, and legal systems.”

— Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

What it is about

psychoactive plants, consciousness, caffeine

Who it is for

Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of psychoactive plants, consciousness, caffeine and better judgment in how they apply it.

The author

Michael Pollan brings a credible and useful lens to psychoactive plants, consciousness, caffeine, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Michael Pollan

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