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Michael Pollan on The Power of Plants

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

CHAPTER

What Is Your Mind on Plants?

This is your mind on plants. And this book is many different things, but one of them is a kind of philosophical meditation on the fates of different plant based substances and how we end up regulating them. So i wanted to change the context opium and masculine two by putting the three together. Had the book been all illegal substances, it would have been a drug book. But i i'm much more interested in looking past the categories, which are interesting and arbitrary in some ways, logical in others. It's such a curious thing that we were born with this apparently, this desire. To vary normal consciousness, to transcend the ego, or reinforce it, in the case of some drugs.

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