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Michael Pollan on The Power of Plants

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

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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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