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Michael Pollan on The Power of Plants

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

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Is There a Sea Change in Opiates?

A book that sets out to be a book about the er of plants is also a book about human power and the way humans categorize and engage with these same plants. I mean, i'm fascinated by history, and how at different times in history we see nature and culture in very different ways. And drugs are a great example, since they're constantly evolving in our mation of them. But my message is two in the book as it's not all one or the other. We need to think about drugs with the kind of negative capability or suppleness that the greeks did. They called all these drugs, pharmacon, which can mean both poisonor or medicine. And also

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